Chapter 423: Use Magic to Defeat Magic
Wang Banxian's throat rolled up and down, and a hint of blood appeared on his sickly pale face.
"Fifth Brother."
In those electronic eyes that were on the verge of breaking, there were electronic sparks of expectation, as if they saw a glimmer of something called hope.
"Eternal Divine Capital. What exactly is that place?"
Liu Linan held his good brother tightly with his only remaining hand, and his eyes became more complicated.
"I seem to vaguely remember something, but it seems to be an illusion, like a mirage."
"Eternal Divine Capital"
Lu Wenwu's laughter subsided, he coughed up a few strands of blood, and patted Liu Linan on the back with emotion.
"Although I don't know exactly where that place is, but if I'm not mistaken, it might be the world outside of Coconut Juice City, the real world."
"The real, real world?"
Liu Linan looked confused and at a loss.
Isn't this world real?
He had no idea, no idea about it.
He has never left here in his life. He has been busy making a living all day long and struggling painfully in the quagmire of survival. How can he have the leisure to explore the world?
“The real world.”
Lu Wenwu looked at the scene in front of him with a burning gaze, and an image of a talisman appeared in his mind.
The talisman is not big, only the size of an ordinary coin.
The handwriting is engraved on it like silver hooks and iron paintings, emitting a faint glow.
[Name: Heavenly God Talisman]
【Type: Props】
[Introduction: Immediately exit the current instance after use, refresh the rest time, retain all rewards obtained, and no penalty]
This was a forced retreat item that Lu Wenwu had drawn from a mysterious lucky bag in his early years, so early that he had just embarked on the path to transcendence.
Unfortunately, as he continued to push forward with his iron fist, this precious top-level retreat item had never been used.
If Lu Wenwu hadn't cleaned out his backpack items when he went to the Endless Abyss last time, he would have almost forgotten about it.
"System. Although I don't know if you are there, I have initiated the forced exit process!"
Lu Wenwu issued a command in his mind, trying to activate the forced retreat item that he had only known about but had never actually activated.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
Suddenly, Lu Wenwu felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and his original vision disappeared.
Instead, there was a pitch black darkness, a darkness that seemed like nothingness.
An ancient talisman suddenly appeared before his eyes, as if it had suddenly appeared from the void, and the runes carved on it shone brightly.
The familiar system prompt appears.
[Item [Heavenly God Talisman] detected]
[Starting the forced exit process, please wait]
[Sorry, you are currently in the [Final Trial] stage. Due to special reasons, this item cannot be activated. Your world exit program has failed to start. Please complete the main quest as soon as possible.]
The next moment, the dark vision in front of Lu Wenwu was forcibly changed again.
He "returned" to the safe passage where several people were hiding, as if everything just now was just an illusion.
Lu Wenwu's smile became more and more intense.
He looked at Wang Banxian, whose aura was rapidly fading. "Banxian, do you believe me? I may have found a way to clear the level. But I must make it clear that this is a gamble. The chances of immediate demise and a perfect clearance are 50-50."
"If you don't believe me, activate the force retreat item right now. Just think about it in your mind. You can force retreat. As long as you force retreat, you won't die. These injuries are real, but they are also fake."
"But if you die right here, I'm sure you'll truly perish, with no chance of returning to the underworld. I'm sorry I lied to you before, but I can't let you cut in line down here."
"ha"
At this time, Wang Banxian was almost out of breath, relying on the last bit of adrenaline to hang on to life.
He laughed a little at Lu Wenwu's words and coughed violently a few times.
His eyes, which had been somewhat dim, lit up again. With the help of Liu Linan, Wang Banxian struggled to raise his body a little, and squeezed out a few gasps from his throat.
"Of course I believe you!"
"good!"
Lu Wenwu's aura suddenly became stronger, and his right hand gently placed on Wang Banxian's eyes.
He leaned down and said softly, "Go to sleep for a while, I'll take you through it."
After saying this, Lu Wenwu's already thin body shrank even more, and a brilliant light pink halo surged out, almost turning him into a dreamlike existence.
The next moment, amid Liu Linan's scream of astonishment, the right hand that was like an iron clamp suddenly contracted.
Accompanied by a crisp explosion, Wang Banxian's head was crushed by his palm!
The scarlet airflow swept through, and the already broken flesh and blood melted like wax in an instant, turning into the most simple blood and energy that flowed into Lu Wenwu's sickly and skinny body, injecting a trace of new vitality into the dried-up cells and muscles.
In just three seconds, Wang Banxian's life force completely disappeared.
All the flesh and blood on his body disappeared, just like the enemies Lu Wenwu had faced before.
"What on earth are you doing!?"
Liu Linan's voice trembled a little, and the plasma cutter and the broken half of the Overlord Spear were pointed at Lu Wenwu's throat and heart.
“Why! Why are you doing this?!”
Lu Wenwu ignored Liu Linan's questioning.
His eyes became more focused than ever before, and his pair of light golden dragon eyes sparkled, emitting pure golden light.
The right hand that had crushed its companion's head grabbed in the air, then gently retracted and turned it over.
In his current vision, there is a ball of numbers composed entirely of 1s and 0s, stacked up in countless layers.
The densely packed words, so tiny that one needs a microscope to see them clearly, were combined into chains, one after another like a Rasengan, and turned into a blue ball the size of a ping-pong ball, which rotated quietly in a clockwise direction on the palm of Lu Wenwu's hand.
Visual digital compilation soul!
The true appearance of the soul in this world!
It is not a physical entity, but it is better than a physical entity.
It is a cluster of data gathered together between heaven and earth.
Under the eyes of true seeing, all secrets disappear.
"Using a wisp of my own soul information as a foundation, I created a digital medium to communicate with my true self. The binary world is truly magical, a false reality that even deceived my eyes and my innate magical powers."
Lu Wenwu murmured, and clenched his skinny hand, which had turned light pink.
The digital soul that carried Wang Banxian's consciousness suddenly exploded.
It turned into light spots and numbers flying all over the sky, and completely disappeared in this world.
"I don't know how fast time flows in the real world compared to this world. It would be bad if the half-immortal waited anxiously."
"The real world. I can't wait to get back into my real body."
"To be able to create this world where the false can become true, to have mastered the laws of illusion? Or to have used the power of mathematics to rival that of a god?"
"Don't let me down."
Lu Wenwu couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly, and his skinny body, like a skeleton, looked even more terrifying.
"What the hell are you talking about!" Liu Linan yelled in a state of collapse. "You've been saying some incomprehensible things since a while ago, and suddenly you killed the charlatan! I know he's dying, but you can't do this to him!"
"Old Liu, have you ever thought about a question?"
Lu Wenwu was not angry, but continued to smile and asked softly.
"You are not a gene modulator born on the assembly line of a fertility factory. You, or rather, your soul, do not belong here?"
"Think carefully, do you really only have memories of the few years since you left the factory? That doesn't form a healthy personality."
"Your colleagues, who look like robots, are the real modulators."
"And you, my friend, have simply forgotten your past life and lost all memory of it."
"You don't belong here."
"I don't belong here, so where else could it be? The so-called North District of the Eternal Divine Capital? God knows what kind of place that is! God knows if that charlatan has gone mad, imagining that he has some innate superpower!"
A trace of blood and tears seeped out of the corners of Liu Linan's eyes, and he suddenly became excited.
What he had experienced in the past few days had exceeded his life experiences in the past few decades, and the stimulation was too great.
After witnessing his companion kill another companion with his own hands, his emotions were almost broken, and the negative emotions that had accumulated for a long time were completely ignited at this moment.
"I know I'm not very smart, and I don't understand a lot of things. I've only been able to do odd jobs, and following you is just a drag. But...but...but you can't deny me the tiny bit of life I have."
His voice suddenly became softer, and it was unclear whether he was speaking to Lu Wenwu or to himself.
"Even if it is so desperate that it makes people sick at the sight of it."
"There has never been any superpower, no savior, and no hope buried deep in the darkness. These are just fantasies of self-comfort before death."
Lu Wenwu looked at him like this and sighed softly.
Liu Linan's situation is completely different from Wang Banxian's.
Wang Banxian is a player, and Lu Wenwu has verified it and confirmed that his and others' cultivation has not been sealed.
It's just that the main body fell into a deep sleep somewhere else, and the consciousness was carried by a digital soul edited from a fragment of the soul, "creating" a body in this world that matched the cognition in memory.
But Liu Linan and Lu Wenwu didn't dare to bet whether he had a so-called real body like them.
He speculated that there were only two possibilities for the outside world.
First, the main body falls into a deep sleep, and the consciousness is uploaded to the server to continue a new life.
Second, the main body has died, and the consciousness has been uploaded to the server to forcibly continue life, just like in the American TV series "Upload".
If it is the former, Lu Wenwu only needs to "force awaken" him in the same way as he treated Wang Banxian.
The reality constructed by illusion can, to a certain extent, be replicated by the "reality" simulated by the illusion itself.
Perhaps the people who created this world could not have imagined that there would be a bug-level law like the Law of Dreams in the world, and that some of the people who came in would have cultivated it to perfection.
Even if the dream rules at the perfect level are not as good as programmers who type codes with keyboards in the outside world, they are at least equivalent to half a GM.
Now that Lu Wenwu has realized the truth about the world, he cannot forcibly modify the various parameters in the world, but it is not difficult to accurately find the programs that already exist in this world and use them.
Simply put, it is to use magic to defeat magic, and use the existing rules of this world to fight against the rules.
Therefore, for Lu Wenwu now, the operation of forcing his consciousness to pop out can be done with his hands.
It is just like finding the program that is hidden inside the world from the densely packed startup items on the console, and forcing it to run disguised as administrator privileges using the rules of fantasy.
But if Liu Linan's situation belongs to the latter, then it would be a bit troublesome.
Lu Wenwu couldn't even tell whether he was a consciousness copied through Liu Linan's past memories and relying on computing power, or Liu Linan's true consciousness.
"Old Liu, I'm not denying your life. I'm just trying to help you find the life you've lost." Lu Wenwu said seriously, "You are not a man-made product. You have a real life. It's just that someone erased your memory."
"Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers born with different races? You weren't born inferior, and those business leaders at the top of the city aren't any more noble than you. It's just that someone exploited this world to do the wrong thing, creating Coconut Juice City, a twisted city of sin."
"Me? Real life?"
Liu Linan stopped his hysterics and smiled, which was uglier than crying.
He pointed at himself with his already somewhat damaged mechanical prosthesis, his face full of self-mockery.
"Am I worthy?"
"Why aren't you worthy? Aren't you a human being? Are all the people in the Upper City immortals who don't care about worldly things?"
Lu Wenwu stood up, and Maomao also stood up shakily, turning into a wisp of black flame and disappearing without a trace.
The power he exuded became even more terrifying.
The surface of the body still glowed with a light pink glow, and the body fat percentage was frighteningly low.
With a slight force from his bony hand, the heavy alloy gate was easily torn apart, revealing the bright moonlight outside.
The pure white light pierced through the darkness, as holy as a stairway to heaven.
In the distance, there was a faint and vague sound of music, rustling and difficult to hear clearly.
"It came really fast, without giving me a chance to breathe."
The corners of Lu Wenwu's mouth with deep eye sockets slightly raised, and his skull-like face looked even more terrifying.
The strange red and black flames flickered and burned, lighting up the dark area like a candle, or even more like a torch.
"Lao Liu, we are about to be surrounded. You don't have much time to make a choice."
"Die here in a daze, or take a gamble and regain your true memories, or start a new life."
"It's not this kind of rubbish life that people hate and dogs despise, but a real life that belongs to 'people'!"
(End of this chapter)
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