“Ugh, ahh ...
And Pei Du (the mushroom master) holding a knife!
At the moment the pheromone fusion triggered the crown resonance and forced memory sharing! His pupils, burning with dark golden flames, were like a supernova! Countless images—real, tampered, and implanted by the fungus master—exploded like the most chaotic data bombs in the core of his consciousness!
He saw it! The desperate perspective of the young man on the operating table! He saw the cold infusion of the mycelial figure in the shadows in the corner! He saw the gentle smile of young Xu Shuangyao, who was oblivious to it! (True pain!)
He saw it too! He lost control and lunged at Xu Shuangyao, only to be shoved back by the silver-white barrier! He saw her bleeding and severely injured from the shock! (A real scene, but distorted by the Fungus Master!)
He even "saw" it! The false images implanted by the Fungus Master: Xu Shuangyao indifferently controlled the console to activate the "compliant sclerotium" program; she and Qingluo exchanged "calculating" glances... (a complete lie!)
Truth and falsehood! Pain and betrayal! Protection and rejection! All the fragments of memory and conflicting emotions collided and exploded wildly in his consciousness, which was dominated by the will of the Fungus Master and the power of the Crown!
“Ugh… Hoo… Ah——!!!” Pei Du let out an inhuman howl that was even more painful and chaotic than Xu Shuangyao’s, as if his soul had been thrown into a furnace of purgatory! His face, covered with dark red fungal membranes, was distorted, and his muscles were twitching wildly! The blade against Xu Shuangyao’s throat trembled violently, emitting a high-frequency buzzing sound! He suddenly hugged his head with his other hand, and his five fingers dug deep into his hair covered with mycelium, as if he wanted to dig out the contents! The light of the rotten crown of thorns between his eyebrows flickered wildly, flickering unsteadily, and the fungal blood flowing on the crown swelled up as if boiling! The pulsating dark red mycelium veins on his body twisted and contracted like a frightened group of snakes!
The Master's will roared, attempting to repress the out-of-control chaos! Pei Du's suppressed soul screamed and struggled in agony! The power of the Crown of Thorns surged with rage in resonance! Three forces collided fiercely within the confined container! His body became the most brutal battlefield!
"No... not... she... betrayed... the shackles... me..." Pei Du's broken roar was intermittent, filled with extreme confusion and pain. He looked at Xu Shuangyao, who was on the verge of collapse under the impact of the torrent of memories, with blood gushing from her neck. For the first time, a fierce struggle appeared in his pupils burning with dark golden flames! Pei Du's deeply buried, complex and painful emotions towards Xu Shuangyao (dependence, trust, anger at being "betrayed", and a deep-seated protective instinct) were like red-hot chains, burning the shackles of the Fungus Master under the impact of memory fragments and the stimulation of Xu Shuangyao's blood!
The blade trembled even more violently! The cold, deathly touch against his throat tightened and loosened! Amidst the chaos of excruciating pain and shattered consciousness, Xu Shuangyao, through her blood-blurred vision, saw the intense struggle and agony in Pei Du's eyes! She saw the mycelium squirming frantically beneath his brow, as if repelling the rotten crown!
Opportunity! The only chance!
Exhausting her last remaining shred of willpower, Xu Shuangyao's blood-stained hand no longer vainly tried to push away the deadly blade. Instead, she raised it tremblingly yet with unwavering determination, reaching for Pei Du's arm, which was clutching his head and trembling violently with pain! Her target was the back of his neck! That spot, covered in mycelium and deep within, where the control interface of the fungus master was buried!
Her fingertips, tinged with her warm blood, a mixture of Omega pheromones and the scent of the World Tree's "seeds," trembled as they were about to touch the wriggling dark red mycelium...
At this moment when the fingertips that decide life and death are about to touch!
boom--!!!!
The entire sky above the battlefield seemed to be torn apart by an invisible giant hand!
The blood-red fungal network covering the sky—the sky system—suddenly caved inward and twisted! Countless thick energy pipes, flowing with viscous dark red mycelial fluid, emerged from the depths of the fungal network like the blood vessels of a living being, extending downward and winding madly!
Space wailed under the weight of its weight! Light was distorted and devoured madly! An unimaginably vast, viscous, decaying pressure, like eons of accumulated silt, mixed with a soul-shattering sweet, fishy aroma, instantly swept across the battlefield like a devastating tsunami! All the fighting resistance fighters, reapers, and even the raging energy roots of the World Tree froze in that moment!
Under the gaze of countless horrified eyes!
In the center of the sunken, twisted fungal web, sticky dark red mycelium cascaded down like a waterfall! They frantically condensed, piled up, and took shape! In the blink of an eye, a massive throne hundreds of meters tall, composed of wriggling, entwined living mycelium, ripped through space and descended upon the battlefield!
The throne's base was a sea of corpses and bones, formed from countless twisted, wailing aberrations and solidified metal debris! The throne's backrest was a tangle of countless thick, pulsating, dark red mycelial tubes! And at the very top of the throne sat an indescribably massive being!
It lacked a fixed form, more like a dark red, viscous nebula that constantly tumbled, expanded, and contracted! At the nebula's core, countless "eyes" composed of solidified data streams, burning with dark golden flames, flickered in and out, each pupil reflecting a different vision of destruction! On the nebula's surface, countless dark red tentacles composed of pure, decaying will slowly swayed like the flagella of a living being. Each movement tore through space, emitting a terrifying aura that withered all life!
The Fungus Lord! Its true form! Along with its rotten throne constructed from the remains of the World Tree server and countless life bones, it has completely arrived!
"The throne... has arrived... the feast... has concluded..." A massive, cold, sticky voice, like the combined wails of billions of wronged souls, emanated from the dark red nebula atop the throne, instantly drowning out all other sounds on the battlefield! It carried with it absolute coercion and a will to destroy everything!
A sticky, dark red gaze composed purely of corrupted will, like a physical searchlight, instantly penetrated the chaotic battlefield and locked firmly below - locked on the two figures struggling painfully in the torrent of memories, about to touch each other!
"Those who blaspheme...will be annihilated!"
An immense, condensed, dark-red energy beam, carrying a corrupted will to annihilate all matter and spirit, shot forth from the dark-red nebula atop the throne like a calamity of divine punishment! Ignoring the distance between them, it instantly ripped through the air, slamming down fiercely towards the tightly clasped Xu Shuangyao and Pei Du with a destructive trajectory!
Death! Real, inescapable death from the ultimate being!
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