Chapter 45 Contact, Rooting
Yu Sheng's mind was submerged in a vast and indescribable tide of darkness. The shadow cast by the hungry "entity" was even more terrifying than he had imagined, and this huge scale was exactly what "hunger" should be like - it was the greatest and most primitive terror that floated above the heads of all living beings and buried deep in the hearts of all living beings.
Then, in the depths of the shadow, he sensed the slowly floating and wriggling "entity".
It was difficult for him to tell what exactly it was. It seemed to have countless tentacles and bloated lumps of flesh and blood. Every part of its body was constantly changing shape, and it even seemed to collapse new structures or gaps in real time as Yu Sheng watched. Its surface was pitch black, but deep within the intertwined tentacles, it seemed to hide constantly changing colors, with a chaotic texture that made people gradually lose their minds.
And the moment Yu Sheng noticed that thing, that thing also noticed Yu Sheng's existence.
He had no time to react as countless new tentacles and branch structures spread out from inside the thing in the blink of an eye. The malicious tentacles arrived in an instant and suddenly entangled Yu Sheng's mind.
Yu Sheng felt as if ten thousand voices were exploding in his "head". He had no way to resist or dodge. His mind had already established an irreversible connection with something even bigger. That thing was roaring in the depths of his consciousness, conveying frantic and terrifying thoughts, but the next second, Yu Sheng realized that that thing did not seem to have real reason and thinking -
It was just some kind of huge and wild "instinct", and the crazy thoughts and temptations he felt were just tools mimicked by this huge instinct for "hunting".
That came from the creatures it had devoured, their madness and despair at the end of hunger, and the remnants of the victims' dying wails. All of this combined to form the monster's entire malice, allowing this thing, which was originally just an aggregation of instincts, to gradually grow to where it is today, and even become a powerful "entity" that would actively "forage for food" and actively seduce and force its prey.
And it is still growing rapidly. The thinking ability that was originally just a mimicry is now gradually becoming its real "thought"! Now, it begins to try to dismantle Yu Sheng's mind and try to turn the uninvited guest in front of it into its new "nutrient".
Yu Sheng felt his mind gradually "dissolving", and he felt that he was being "digested" quickly and becoming a part of the monster. He tried his best to break free from the tentacles that were entangled with him, but found that the stronger he struggled, the stronger the tentacles became!
And at this moment, Yu Sheng suddenly felt something.
He looked suddenly at the huge entity that was constantly squirming in the darkness. The next second, he saw countless pairs of eyes of different shapes suddenly emerging from the colorful depths of the darkness, and one of the eyes... was his.
He felt his vision shake again, and in the darkness he saw countless tentacles extending forward, at the end of which was entangled a struggling human figure.
He felt that the monster was digesting and absorbing him.
He felt like he was swallowing something.
He is eating.
He is eating.
Just when Yusheng could hardly tell where his perspective was, and could no longer distinguish the boundary between himself and the monster, Irene's scream suddenly came faintly from the depths of darkness -
“What the hell?!”
The next second, Yu Sheng felt a violent fall.
The extremely uncomfortable experience of waking up suddenly last time happened again in an instant.
Yu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes. The intense stabbing and roaring pain in his head and the pain all over his body overwhelmed all his senses in the blink of an eye. He turned over, held onto the bedside table and retched violently. He even wanted to vomit out his heart, but nothing came out. After a long ten seconds, the terrible sequelae finally gradually subsided.
Yu Sheng held onto the bedside table and struggled to stand up. He saw the faint morning light pouring into the room through the curtains, and saw a doll with a picture frame on its back sitting on his bed, with an expression of great anxiety and nervousness on its little face.
"Are you okay?! Is this still you?" Irene crawled over using her hands and feet, grabbed Yu Sheng's arm and shook it hard, "Do you remember who I am?"
"Don't shake, don't shake, I'm still dizzy... Shit, why do I feel pain all over my body..." Yu Sheng quickly interrupted the puppet, "I'm awake, Irene, I'm fine."
Irene stared at Yu Sheng for several seconds before finally letting go of his hand: "You scared me to death! You...you...you suddenly became like dead, with no mental reactions at all! And then you suddenly came back to life, with your entire mind in a mess. I don't even know what I woke up! You scared me to death! You scared me to death!"
Irene said "I'm scared" several times in a row, and it was obvious that she was really scared. However, Yu Sheng had little extra energy to comfort this little doll. The huge impact brought by establishing a deep connection with "hunger" still remained in his heart, and it even seemed that a huge shadow still remained. Yu Sheng tried hard to get rid of its influence, leaned against the head of the bed and panted for a long time before he finally cleared his mind completely.
"Erin, that thing is dangerous," he said.
The little doll stood on Yu Sheng's belly: "Of course I know it's dangerous! I told you from the beginning that thing is dangerous!"
"No, I mean that thing is more dangerous than you know—it's almost really learning to think."
Irene stared in shock.
"It originally only had instincts. It learned how to force and seduce after devouring countless minds," Yu Sheng leaned against the head of the bed, staring into Irene's eyes. "Simple and rough hunting can only get limited 'nutrients', but forcing and seduce a mind to go crazy can get amazing 'nutrients'. That thing didn't understand these things at the beginning. It learned them gradually, and now... it is almost about to show real thinking activities."
A trace of fear finally showed on Irene's face, but then she suddenly realized something else.
“How do you know?!” The puppet came closer, its face almost touching Yu Sheng’s nose, “You…”
"...I established a deep connection with that thing, deeper than we had initially planned," Yu Sheng did not hide anything. "For a moment, I felt like I had even become a part of that monster... Then, in the depths of darkness, I saw its most primitive form, and the secret of its continuous growth."
“Fuck… fuck!” Irene almost jumped up, followed by a burst of beeping. “I told you long ago that this wouldn’t work! It’s dangerous! No one knows what will happen, and you still insist on trying. What shall I do, what shall I do, what shall I do… It’s over! It must have taken root! You’re not being targeted, you’re being eaten by it! ‘Hunger’ has definitely taken root in your mind, ah ah ah – it’s over! It’s all-over!”
The little doll's noises became louder and louder, crawling all over the bed and Yu Sheng's stomach. Yu Sheng tried to interrupt her several times but failed. In the end, he had to forcibly lift her up into the air to make her calm down: "Calm down, Irene, calm down."
"Calm down! 'Hunger' has taken root in your heart! Aren't you nervous at all?!" Irene swayed in the air, "It will grow in your mind, bigger and bigger, and then 'bang'! You're done! Even if you hide in the real world! Do you know your current situation... Don't even mention that you will be resurrected! This thing is rooted in your mind! Your body can be renewed, but can your mind? Are you sure that you can get rid of this 'rooting' by dying and coming back to life?"
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Yu Sheng certainly knew all of this, but he didn't know why he didn't have the slightest sense of urgency that his life was counting down. Even his "spiritual intuition" which had become increasingly sharp recently didn't warn him.
He only knew on an intellectual level that the situation was dangerous, but his heart was filled with an abnormal calmness.
But he knew he couldn't show this calmness too much, otherwise Irene would become even more crazy.
"As long as we eliminate 'Hunger' before then... I mean, kill the 'entity instance' that affects me, there won't be a problem, right?" Yu Sheng tried to divert Irene's attention. "The 'rooting' part will take some time to erupt. We still have time."
"Time... Yes, there's still time. Hurry up, hurry up!" As expected, Irene's attention was diverted in an instant. At the same time, she also realized that she was being caught in mid-air. "Put me down! Put me down quickly. Let's go immediately and kill that 'entity instance'. Yes, yes, yes, let's go right away, while you still don't feel anything..."
Yu Sheng exhaled softly, put Irene on the bed, and prepared to get up.
But as soon as he enlarged his movements, he immediately felt waves of pain coming from all over his limbs, and he gasped.
"Hiss! Why does it hurt so much..." Yu Sheng looked down at himself in surprise, "I clearly remember that the sequelae disappeared soon after the last 'sudden awakening'... and I didn't feel any pain at that time. Why do I feel like I was beaten up..."
As he spoke, the puppet next to him, which had been busy and anxious a second ago, suddenly became quiet. Then, while Irene quietly crawled to the end of the bed, she muttered quietly, "Yes... sometimes 'awakening suddenly' can also cause some physical sequelae..."
"No!" Yu Sheng reacted immediately and pulled back his sleeves. "I was beaten up - there are teeth marks on my arm!"
Irene had already crawled to the end of the bed by this time: "You grind your teeth while sleeping, you did it yourself."
"Such a small tooth mark, you said I made it myself?"
"I'm here to wake you up! If conventional methods don't work, then why don't I use something unconventional?"
Irene stood at the end of the bed with her hands on her hips, looking smug, then turned around, jumped to the ground, and ran out!
(End of this chapter)
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