Chapter 20 A Lucid Dream: The Evil God Demanded 100 Chickens from You...

Chapter Twenty

Even without 166's announcement, Du Yu knew that the monster was definitely not dead.

She braced herself against the knife, standing before the three heads, quickly selecting them with her mental power, and shouting in her mind, "System, normal synthesis!"

[Beep, the current materials exceed the material level cap for [Normal Synthesis], unable to...]

"Use this last synthesizer trial opportunity!"

Du Yu interrupted the game system's mechanical announcement. Although she could only synthesize E-grade or low-grade materials at the moment, the three chances given to new players did not have this limitation!

【drop……】

The system seemed to freeze for a moment before the three human heads in front of it turned into pixel blocks and disappeared.

Du Yu didn't have time to check what he had synthesized. He lunged forward, barely dodging the tentacle's deadly attack, but his left shoulder was still hit hard.

"cough……"

Du Yu coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. When she manipulated the container, she could choose to weaken her senses. But to complete such a delicate operation as combat, she had to be 100% focused.

In other words, she not only fully endured the pain of that blow, but also suffered even greater pain due to the body's rejection effect!

"ha!"

Du Yu was sent flying. Shen Xijing struggled forward, and Cat Whiskers hesitated for a moment before following. But the seriously injured man laughed and raised an iron basin that had appeared out of nowhere.

Du Yu coughed up blood while laughing, wiping it away without a care. Her ordinary black eyes shimmered with a brilliant purple, faintly exuding a mysterious aura that was impossible to look directly at.

Facing the slug monster writhing in agony on the ground, which for some reason had stopped attacking, she solemnly raised... well, that iron basin:

"God has heard your suffering; recite His name and you will be set free."

The monster, whose tentacles frantically attacked the ground and convulsed, emanating an aura of hatred, paused for a moment. To the incredulous look of the cat whiskers, it actually struggled and disappeared, becoming as still as a dead object.

As the three severed heads disappeared, Du Yu sensed that the monster's frantic consciousness was splitting in agony, turning into countless fragments of consciousness, large and small, each emanating a familiar aura.

Some fragments still exuded an aura of hatred, but most conveyed only pain and confusion. Du Yu raised the "iron basin" and guided the fragments away from the monster and into the "iron basin" through their mental connection.

[WARNING! The current follower is in a special state. Accepting this type of follower will have an irreversible impact on the god's evolutionary path. Players should choose carefully!]

[Warning! Currently...]

【warn! ……】

The system warning popped up three times, which was enough to show the seriousness of the matter. Du Yu didn't even look at it and clicked the "Confirm" button in the dense pop-up window.

In fact, the system's warning pop-ups had already flooded the sample room once, and Du Yu had clicked "confirm" at the time.

Upon discovering that the samples in the glass jars of the sample room possessed spirituality and were not fake, she quietly entered after everyone left, attempting to deceive these samples, which were broadly speaking, possessed consciousness, into believing in her.

The whole process went surprisingly smoothly. As soon as those fragmented consciousnesses encountered her, they grasped at her like a lifeline. As soon as the prayer was passed over, they spontaneously began to recite it. In less than a minute, 156 people had recited her prayer.

The remaining samples were either in a state of mental confusion, making communication impossible, or their consciousness was reduced to chaotic rage, and all of them were shattered as soon as Yu's mental energy was transmitted.

After they finished reciting the prayer, they didn't become her followers like Tian Yinuo did. Du Yu could vaguely sense them, but not as clearly as she could sense her followers.

Du Yu questioned 166, who only vaguely said that the conditions were not met. He added that if Du Yu still chose to accept this group of believers, there would be an opportunity before the dream ended.

As soon as the monster appeared, Du Yu sensed some familiar fragments in its frenzied consciousness. Although he didn't know what You Shi had done, the monster was a collection of all the samples pieced together!

However, after becoming a monster, all the fragments were controlled by her frenzied consciousness, and even after reciting Du Yu's prayer, she could no longer communicate with them as before.

After Shen Xijing subdued the monster, Du Yu was briefly able to re-establish contact with them. However, a message came through his hazy consciousness: if the monster's consciousness remained, they could not be freed.

Brutal destruction of the monster won't work, because the slug-like creature is a collection of their subconscious; the moment the monster truly dies, they will die as well.

166 advised her not to do anything unnecessary. With a group of believers like Shen Xijing, Du Yu would have a connection with the world outside the fog. They could use their dreams as a springboard to gather enough believers. There was no need to accept this group of believers in extremely poor condition.

"But I already promised them, didn't I?"

When they decide to dedicate themselves entirely and recite her name, they are already her believers.

Making promises and then failing to keep them—that's a terrible failure as a god.

She can accept failure, but she will never surrender! The "Golden Will" talent perfectly reflects her past experiences: she will never waver, and she will never back down!

Du Yu ignored the silent 166, her eyes steady. The moment she got the synthesized substance, she knew that the time 166 had mentioned had come.

【Compound Name: Dream Petri Dish】

[Rank: K (Can be upgraded by feeding Stun-level elemental cores)]

[Crafting Description: A wondrous crafting material blessed by the fallen false god [Heartless Specter]. Constant Effect: A beautiful dream from which one never awakens, capable of containing shattered souls; shattered souls can slowly heal within the dream.]

[Note: The more soul fragments of the same faith in the petri dish, the faster the soul repair speed;]

The petri dish can hold only one Faith (bound), and bound crafted items are not tradable.

[Comment: Lies can come from good intentions, but reality emerges when you wake up. Sinking into despair while remaining sober, going mad while being rational—reality may well be a dream to you.]

Is this really the kind of evaluation...?

166, perched on "Xiao Ran's" shoulder, muttered to itself. Bound to the game, it could naturally hear the system announcements. Du Yu noticed its unusual behavior, and before he could ask, 166 nuzzled against the shrunken Du Yu:

【Goo~ Maybe you're right!】

What does "maybe it's right" even mean? Du Yu thought to herself. Even if the outcome of this matter is not good, as long as it is something she has made up her mind, she will do it against all obstacles!

“Little…no, Bishop D…”

Shen Xijing struggled to get to Du Yu's side, hesitatingly looking at the monster that had been completely turned into a pile of minced meat, carefully choosing her words: "...Uh, sir? This monster..."

"Oh, dead, the kind that won't come back to life."

Du Yu watched as the last fragment entered, then put away the [Dream Cultivation Dish], which looked no different from an iron basin. His mood was unusually uneasy.

One hundred and fifty-six people in the sample room recited her prayer, but she has only received one hundred and thirty-seven soul fragments. Many fragments have completely merged into the monster's berserk consciousness, and the remaining fragments are in worse condition. Nearly half of them were forcibly pulled out by Du Yu through contact and can no longer respond to Du Yu's calls.

Oh well, I'll keep it. With the [Dream Petri Dish], it'll eventually recover.

At the same time, the system notification "[Believers +6]" finally appeared.

Although the fragments of consciousness in the petri dish all recited Du Yu's prayer, they were too fragmented, and only a few pieces were relatively intact. The six people with the clearest consciousness were counted as believers by the system.

Even so, after expressing their joy and gratitude to Du Yu in their minds, the six believers then fell into a deep sleep, as their souls were too damaged and needed to recuperate.

Du Yu looked at the remaining five believers. Apart from Wenren Qiu, who was more severely infected, the other four had already slowly woken up. Among them, apart from Shen Xijing, who looked conflicted, the others looked wary and on the verge of collapse.

Good news: everyone survived after accidentally entering the evil god's dream.

Bad news: everyone has become a follower of another evil god.

Old Cai's vision went black; for a moment, she couldn't tell which of the two outcomes was worse!

Cat Whiskers examined his mental space and found that apart from a faint connection with some unknown entity, he had not yet discovered any other interference, and he even felt much more awake.

Fortunately, the situation hasn't reached its worst point yet—although it's already very bad now.

"Thank you for your help..."

Cat Whiskers took a deep breath. No matter how she felt, neither the person in front of her nor the person behind her were people she could afford to offend. But her tentative words were interrupted as soon as she started to speak.

Du Yu sighed inwardly; she could naturally see the wariness of Cat Beard's group.

Unlike those fragments of consciousness who, having been driven to desperation by prolonged torment, could only grasp at themselves as a lifeline, they would probably not have chosen to worship an unknown evil god if they had any other options.

But she had no time to appease her newly minted, living believers.

The series of actions just now not only nearly exhausted his mental energy, but also brought this "container" to the brink of collapse under the repeated impacts, making him even more depressed, who still wanted to take a stroll around the City of the Sun.

She cut to the chase, interrupting Cat Whiskers: "It was our Lord who bestowed grace upon you and saved you. Although the Lord is tolerant and loving, you cannot accept God's blessing with a clear conscience..."

Catwhisker's heart tightened. He knew the bishop was demanding sacrifices, but what could an evil god possibly crave... flesh and blood? Chaos? War? Plague...?

Du Yu didn't have time to pay attention to the internal struggle in Mao Hu Zi's heart. As the dream gradually collapsed, Du Yu had a thought, and a long strip of paper covered with words appeared in her hand.

After checking and confirming that nothing was missing, she handed it to the struggling cat whiskers, patted the child's head, and just as she finished explaining the method of sacrifice with a smile, her entire body collapsed into a pile of writhing flesh in front of her.

Cat whiskers, covered in blood and foam: Is this a threat? This must be a threat!

Without even reading the contents, she was already starting to despair just from the length of the paper. This evil god was unknown, but he had a huge appetite. Could she possibly consume all of this?

Regardless of whether He could eat it or not, after reciting that prayer, their lives were no longer in their own hands. She didn't blame Shen Xijing; in that situation, whoever came would likely have achieved the same result…

However, before Cat Whiskers could finish his battle with his conscience, Shen Xijing, who was standing nearby, curiously leaned over, widened her eyes, and read out the items on the list one by one:

"Five of the latest model optical computers; five luxury mattresses; one hundred kilograms of rice..."

Shen Xijing read the note aloud louder and louder, and Cat Whiskers became more and more incredulous. She quickly glanced at the note, and her exceptional memory as a superhuman had memorized everything on it.

But she couldn't help but doubt herself: was she really conscious right now?

Otherwise, why would a list of sacrifices compiled by a follower of an evil god include not only a quantum computer and a mattress, but also a hundred eggs?

Which evil god would need these things? Is this really not some so-called Bishop D lining his own pocket and writing down what he wanted?

But I've never heard of a legitimate evil god bishop demanding these things from his followers!

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Author's Note: Evil God ×

Harmony √

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I wanted to catch all the bugs in front of me today, but JJ punished me! (orz)

Never mind, I'll revise it slowly during the day.

I usually update at night; I spend most of my daytime fixing bugs.