Lu Ban had never thought about what a major failure would be like.

According to the impression of his previous great success, Lu Ban survived by luck when he faced those two great beings. Although he lost his sanity, he did not die. Instead, he felt more energetic.

So what happens if you fail big?

In daily life, a big failure may mean that you will choke to death while drinking water, be electrocuted while taking a bath, or even accidentally die from bronchial problems due to breathing.

If great success is a good miracle, then great failure is a bad miracle.

Lu Ban felt as if his entire body was boiling. The scorching heat turned his fleshy body into gas. The grass and trees withered, and his vitality began to completely drain away.

The wormhole in front of him completely disappeared, severing the connection between this place and the wasteland. Not only that, all the wormholes connecting to other alien realms nearby, which were set up by an unknown existence, were destroyed. With that great existence as the center, all things within the range of a star system were annihilated in an instant.

Planets, monsters, everything in existence, are turned into the most basic particles and sucked into the black hole.

Lu Ban is no exception.

only.

Death is not a tragic ending.

When facing the Old Ones, death can even be considered a mercy.

If Lu Ban stayed here, he would be dead. Therefore, due to the great failure, Lu Ban will now fall into a situation more terrible than death.

He felt his spirit being kneaded and destroyed, just like the most delicate skin was placed on the roughest sandpaper and rubbed hard. Even if his will could bear it, the whipping that came directly from the spirit still made him tremble instinctively.

His body was almost destroyed, but Lu Ban did not die.

To be precise, his spirit, consciousness, and soul, anyway, the thing that made Lu Ban called Lu Ban merged with the remaining things in his body.

What surprised Lu Ban was that even in this situation, the system of the Silent Land was still functioning normally.

[Obtained Item: Twisted Heart of the Swarm]

"???"

Lu Ban didn't know where he got this [Twisted Heart of the Swarm] from. Later, he thought about it and concluded that it was probably mixed with the powder of the Queen Insect when he blew it up, and they became one.

[Mission objective: Find the Queen Insect 1/1]

[Mission objective: survive 0/1]

By the way, Lu Ban also saw this description.

Looking at the 0/1 displayed for "Survive", he found it a little funny.

Soon, Lu Ban felt the insight of the predecessors of human civilization into the laws of the universe. In the universe, mass is the cause of gravity. Therefore, Lu Ban, floating in the vacuum universe, was drifting towards the huge, ugly, wriggling Old One.

If he were to be devoured by this creature, he would gain eternal life but at the same time be completely alienated into a monster, becoming a part of this indescribable great existence and losing his qualifications as a human being.

"So the difficulty of [Sublimation] means that people will literally turn into gas?"

Lu Ban could not stop himself from moving towards the Old Ones, just as humans cannot resist gravity.

The wriggling mud-like appearance, the numerous eyeballs and bloody mouth, and the ostentatious tentacles that stretched out were getting closer and closer, occupying the entire space of Lu Ban's consciousness.

Suddenly, Lu Ban heard some strange sound.

From the perspective of the soul, Lu Ban has already lost his hearing. Sound may just be a simple signal to him. Even if he can receive the signal, he cannot distinguish the specific meaning.

But Lu Ban could hear it, it was a song.

It's like a piano piece, melodious and lingering, as if it comes from ancient times, yet as if it's right within reach.

On a warm autumn afternoon, the sun shines into the house through the light curtains. You sit on the soft sofa, with nothing to do, holding a book about the beauty of youth. You turn to the page where the heroine confesses her love to the hero. At this moment, a melody sounds in your ears.

Lu Ban felt much calmer.

He floated towards that place, and soon, a small spot of light entered the radiation range of his soul.

It was like a shard of glass, ordinary.

But in this space where even planets have been reduced to dust, these fragments of glass are the biggest anomaly.

Lu Ban touched the broken pieces of glass.

In an instant, his soul was completely purified, as if he was reborn.

[Obtained item: Du Danping's melody fragment]

Lu Ban now feels much more at home when he sees the cold and indifferent words written by the system.

As he listened to Du Danping's melody, he felt as if he was in another world.

Du Danping actually came here.

He looked directly at the Great Old Ones and even left a melody here?

Could it be that the seal here...

Lu Ban thought it was unlikely. Du Danping was at best a powerful Chosen One of Gods, not enough to be able to influence the Old Ones.

Perhaps he came here through the wasteland, leaving a melody here to suppress the awakening of the Great Old Ones.

"Um?"

Lu Ban thought of something.

If his side quest is to find the fragments of Du Danping's melody, then it means that he must come here to get one of them.

In front of this Old One, Lu Ban’s head would definitely explode.

So is the difficulty of this side quest a bit too high?

He took the fragment of melody into his soul and felt much better.

However, his soul still fell towards the Old Ones without any suspense, and the whispers in his ears became more and more frequent and louder, tormenting his consciousness.

"Fallen..."

“Killing…”

"Hungry……"

“Indulge, enjoy, celebrate…”

"Go to sleep..."

Some words drilled into Lu Ban's head, causing his soul to expand several times. It was filled with these pollutions and turned into the appearance of the Old One.

At this time.

In the distance, the melody coming from the stars in a distant foreign land resonated with the melody fragments obtained by Lu Ban.

Although the two are completely different, one represents the most tender emotions of human beings, while the other represents the most indifferent rules of the universe.

The interweaving of the two calmed Lu Ban's mind.

The next moment, Lu Ban's soul was pulled by something, and in an instant, it was pulled away from the bound god, beyond the light, and entered into some kind of high-speed movement.

He saw a bizarre sight: a ray of emerald light flashed across the sky, the red stars were huge and quiet, and a sea of ​​silt and a torrent of lava spread.

He seemed to see a tall palace, towering above countless galaxies, and even the Milky Way was just a brick and tile of that palace.

In that palace, an invisible voice played a flute, and the melody echoed throughout the universe.

At a higher position...

Lu Ban lost consciousness.