Chapter 111 The Fungal Remains Frenzy 72 The World Collapses.
Nanmen Jue's sudden departure was not to avoid harming others. At this point, she had no choice but to use swift and decisive measures to deter them. Based on her understanding of these people, they would not lose hope of persuading her to "turn back from her wrong path" just because of a few words from her. Harming people was a possibility she had already considered. According to her deduction, the first three people to approach would be Ying Yao, Mo Gui, and Deng Erhuai.
Of these three, Ying Yao was confident in his abilities, Mo Gui was driven by reckless courage, and Deng Erhuai... possessed an extraordinary stubbornness.
It was indeed Deng Erhuai who came forward.
Nanmen Jue certainly didn't want to hurt her. She had deliberately held back her strength when she struck out with that palm, feeling guilty. Deng Erhuai would be seriously injured, but definitely not to the point of death.
"I'm sorry," she thought to herself.
She was prepared to face everyone's counterattack. With the Spore Mother there, even if Jin Ming was present, he couldn't hurt her. She planned to control everyone, and if necessary, keep them tied up until the time was up.
However, at that moment, she received a message in her mind that she had discovered Cheng Xiuye's whereabouts.
Having received news of him, Nanmen Jue no longer cared about these people. She took the Spore Mother and rode the large bird to the place where the mental fluctuations had occurred. She looked around but found nothing.
The mushroom apologized humbly, "I'm sorry, divine messenger, that person was indeed here! But he was moving too fast; the mycelium here couldn't keep up with him."
Nanmen Jue narrowed his eyes, looking grimly in the direction Cheng Xiuye had fled. "Keep chasing."
What follows is the same cycle again: slaughter and searching for people.
With the help of the Spore Mother, the slaughter was incredibly easy; with only one day left, there were hardly any living people left in the entire world.
According to the reports from the Spore Mother and the Raven, those reincarnators are also in bad shape, on the verge of death. If it doesn't end soon, they will all die in this world.
The last day.
Nanmen Jue was getting a little irritated. How could those two be so good at hiding? They were about to kill everyone in the world, and they still couldn't find them?
Just as she was about to move to another place, a familiar mental fluctuation came over her, and a sinister smile appeared on her lips.
"Cheng, Xiu, Ye".
She pronounced the name slowly and deliberately, then turned and mounted a horse that had transformed into a parasite, and chased after it in that direction.
Upon seeing Cheng Xiuye's massive figure missing both arms, Nanmen Jue finally let out a hearty laugh.
"Cheng Xiuye, I said I would kill you, and I will definitely kill you!"
Like an angry lion, she charged at Cheng Xiuye without regard for anything else. Cheng Xiuye glanced back at her, his eyes filled with fear. He was a man of experience and didn't want to confront her directly at all, so he turned and ran!
Nanmen Jue rode a horse, while he rode a parasitic creature that resembled a wild boar. The two engaged in a tug-of-war, chasing and fleeing each other.
This scene seemed familiar. Before, it was Cheng Xiuye chasing after Nanmen Jue, but now it was Nanmen Jue chasing after Cheng Xiuye.
Nanmen Jue tried to get the Spore Mother to kill him directly, but the Spore Mother hesitated. "Divine Messenger, he has something important on him... If we attack him, this world will probably be in trouble."
Nanmen Jue was stunned. This guy Cheng Xiuye actually found the anchor point of this world?
Can an anchor point be something that can move?
“Yes,” said the crow. “The anchor could even be a living organism. In fact, I initially suspected that the mushroom was the anchor, but it turned out it wasn’t.”
Nanmen Jue pursed her lips, her expression turning fierce. Now, no matter what, she had to kill Cheng Xiuye.
"Attack," she coldly ordered. "What are you afraid of? If the world collapses, I'll take you away."
A crow flying overhead let out a caw, as if it wanted to say something, but Nanmen Jue raised her eyes and gave her a sharp glance, and the crow fell silent.
The mushroom had no doubts; it simply carried out the divine command without hesitation.
In an instant, it seemed as if all the mycelia in the world were converging in this direction.
The blood-red, dense mycelium converged from all directions at an extremely fast speed, like a red wave surging and engulfing everything in its path. If someone could look down at this scene from above, they would surely be speechless with shock.
Cheng Xiuye panicked completely, screaming at the top of her lungs, "Nanmen Jue, are you crazy! Zhang Zhi's ability isn't so easy to use! It's not about giving orders, it's about communication, you know that?! Do you think those things are really that obedient? With so many mycelia, you'll die too!"
Nanmen Jue remained silent, and the mycelium surged even more violently, some of which had already wrapped around Cheng Xiuye's calves. Cheng Xiuye frantically hacked at them, but this level was certainly not enough to turn Jin Ming into a parasite. However, Jin Ming was not an impenetrable fortress. A small amount of these mycelium would not threaten Jin Ming, but what about a large amount, or even a massive amount?
The surging mycelium frantically engulfed Cheng Xiuye and the parasite he was riding. Amidst the deafening screams, the tall figure had turned into a blood-red mass, with the mycelium wriggling and climbing, looking like pulsating blood vessels from afar.
Suddenly the figure shrunk down; it was Cheng Xiuye who fell off the parasite. The wild boar-like parasite was completely devoured by the mycelium and soon spat out several fragments of bone.
Just then, Cheng Xiuye let out a heart-wrenching scream.
"Nanmen Jue! I have an anchor point on me! You can't kill me if you don't want to die!"
Nanmen Jue suddenly looked up at the sky. A crow was flying overhead. It clearly knew what Nanmen Jue was thinking. The two looked at each other and got the information they wanted from each other's eyes.
How could Cheng Xiuye know the anchor point!
The concept was told to Nanmen Jue by the crow. The premise of knowing the anchor point is to acknowledge that these reincarnation worlds are real and are game fields chosen by the main god. Cheng Xiuye has never acknowledged this point, so how could he know the anchor point?
Obviously, Nanmen Jue himself couldn't have told him this, and the crow also indicated it wasn't him. So what's going on?
Nanmen Jue said coldly, "Stop."
The mycelium stopped wriggling and slowly receded, revealing Cheng Xiuye's enormous body.
In just a short while, almost all of his clothes were corroded, and there was hardly a piece of good flesh left on his body. If he didn't reveal this secret soon, he would soon follow in the footsteps of that wild boar and become a skeleton.
Nanmen Jue dismounted and approached him.
Cheng Xiuye gasped for breath, his eyes filled with intense fear as he watched Nanmen Jue approach.
He was utterly terrified of Nanmen Jue. In her presence, he actually began to tremble, genuinely fearful of what was to come.
Nanmen Jue appeared extremely calm, even overly calm. She knelt down in front of Cheng Xiuye with a blank expression, her voice magnetic and cold, "How did you know about the anchor point?"
"It was...it was Zhang Jin who told me," Cheng Xiuye said in a low voice. "It's in my spatial bag, you can't take it out, so you can't kill me!"
Nanmen Jue narrowed his eyes, "Zhang Jin?"
The president of this Entropy Ash probably knows more than she imagined.
"Yes, you did know about the anchor point, didn't you? No one knows how you destroyed the cycle of reincarnation, only Zhang Jin knows, because you destroyed the anchor point!" Cheng Xiuye laughed hysterically twice. "So you must also know that when the anchor point is destroyed, this world is finished. You and I are just mortals, and you will die in the collapsing world, so you can't kill me!"
Nanmen Jue smiled. "What else did Zhang Jin say?"
Seeing her smiling face, Cheng Xiuye's hair stood on end. He stared warily at Nanmen Jue, glancing gesturingly at the mycelium still wrapped around him, preventing him from moving. "Make these things go away first."
Nanmen Jue didn't take it seriously, pointing to the mushroom on his shoulder with his finger, "Do as he says."
Cheng Xiuye was stunned, then suddenly looked at the mushroom on her shoulder with an incredibly fanatical gaze, her whole face contorted, "This, this is the spore mother..."
“Yes, this is the spore mother,” Nanmenjue introduced generously. “Go on.”
Cheng Xiuye carefully curled up his arms and legs. His body was so deformed that when he curled up like this, he looked like a huge rock.
"What else would you like to know?"
How did you find the anchor point?
“It was luck. You forced me into the sea, and it turned out to be there,” Cheng Xiuye replied quickly.
Nanmen Jue looked at him for a moment, then cut to the chase: "Has Zhang Jin ever mentioned anything about the authenticity of these worlds?"
A strange light flashed in Cheng Xiuye's eyes as she looked at Nanmen Jue as if he were a monster. "You... really think these worlds are real?"
“Answer me, yes or no,” Nanmenjue said.
Cheng Xiuye suddenly burst into laughter, "Nanmen Jue, since you believe so much that these worlds are real, then what are you doing now? Are you willing to kill everyone in the world just to kill me?"
Nanmen Jue pulled out a dagger with lightning speed and expressionless, stabbing it into Cheng Xiuye's thigh.
Cheng Xiuye's laughter stopped abruptly. His facial muscles twitched, but he didn't cry out because of the pain. "No, Nanmen Jue only told me that you used this method to destroy the Reincarnation World. He never mentioned any question of its authenticity."
Nanmen Jue said, "How can a virtual game world have an anchor point? Haven't you thought about that?"
"Why should I think about this? Whether they are real or fake, alive or dead, what does it have to do with me?" Cheng Xiuye's face was ferocious. "If I want to live, I can't care about anyone, but at least I'm indifferent and open, unlike you, who pretends to care about these people, but then kills them all in the blink of an eye."
Nanmen Jue looked at him, and after confirming that he couldn't find anything more on him, he pulled out his dagger, stood up, and said coldly, "Kill him."
Cheng Xiuye's expression went blank for a moment.
"Wait!" Seeing the mycelium spreading up again, Cheng Xiuye was terrified. "You can't kill me! I didn't lie to you, the anchor point really is on me!"
"I know."
Nanmen Jue looked down at him, a smile playing against the light.
"It's in your spatial bag. As long as the owner of this spatial bag dies, the spatial bag will be in a state of death... That was my original purpose."
"Since I've already destroyed one world, why can't I destroy a second? Using this to threaten me, have you lost your mind?"
Cheng Xiuye stood there, stunned. "But...but the time isn't over yet, you'll die too!"
Nanmen Jue burst into laughter, "Then you'll see if I can die! Kill him."
Upon receiving the second order, Mushroom did not hesitate at all. Amid Cheng Xiuye's roar, the mycelium completely engulfed his body, and from the dense, blood-red network, a chilling chewing sound emanated.
Nanmen Jue took a step back and just watched and listened coldly. Suddenly, without warning, the sky turned completely dark in an instant.
Nanmen Jue looked up as if sensing something, and Mushroom quickly reported, "Divine Messenger, the anchor point has been triggered. Is that person about to die?"
Nanmen Jue looked again at the large net with wriggling mycelium, and a slow smile appeared on his lips. "No, he's going to gamble everything."
Cheng Xiuye was indeed dying, but he was absolutely unwilling to die such a pathetic death. So he took out the anchor point and, with his last bit of strength, destroyed it!
Even if it means his own death, he absolutely cannot let Nanmen Jue live!
Just as in response to Nanmen Jue's conjecture, the whole world began to shake, and large blocks of color began to fall from the sky. These blocks of color shimmered with a faint light and disappeared upon hitting the ground. At the same time, corresponding black holes began to appear in the sky.
The sky has fallen, physically speaking.
The world is starting to collapse.
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Author's Note: There's still a slight (stunned) pause. I'm never guessing word counts again.
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