Chapter 40 Fungal Remains Frenzy 1 "Hello everyone, it seems you all know me..."
Upon returning to the Main God Space, Nanmen Jue's gaze fell upon the crow sitting on the sofa, huddled like a nestling.
“Nothing unusual.” Before she could speak, the crow said, “Many people are looking for you, but not your sister.”
As expected, Nanmen Jue sighed and slumped onto the sofa.
The crow glanced at her, noticing her cold expression, and asked, "Not even in reality?"
Nanmen Jue shook his head, took out his self-made bone scalpel, and twirled it between his fingertips.
She had unconsciously developed this habit in the previous world: twirling a knife in her fingers helped her calm down and think things through.
After a moment, she let out a long sigh and looked at the crow. "You said you'd train me. How will you train me?"
...
Each floor of the hall has a training ground for the main god. Nanmen Jue, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, came here openly yet furtively. The crowd came and went, neither too many nor too few, with faces that were either arrogant or worried, and none of them paid much attention to the people around them, which made Nanmen Jue breathe a sigh of relief.
but……
She looked closely at the crowd; there were very few women, and she couldn't see a single one for a long time.
Nanmen Jue wondered what would happen to her older sister if she faced the same situation. Her sister wasn't as boyish as she was, so it wouldn't be easy for her to pretend.
Feeling a bit irritated, Nanmen Jue clicked his tongue and checked the rules for using the training ground posted at the entrance.
1. Fighting, brawling, and murder are strictly prohibited on the training ground.
2. Each person has their own room in the training area, but they can share rooms. Users who apply for a room pay points.
3. Before use, you can imagine the type of world. The room will be randomly generated with relevant scenes and virtual images to assist you. The virtual images will not cause real damage.
4. You can also imagine the scenes and types of virtual images yourself.
Nanmen Jue understood the difference between the training ground and the living quarters.
You can set up your own room as you like, but you must have a specific idea in mind. The training ground can be randomly generated by the system according to a general type, and it comes with virtual images. It is very useful whether it is used as a training opponent or a monster.
Nanmen Jue glanced at the crow on her shoulder, and the crow nodded to her.
Without asking any further questions, she simply grabbed the handle of a training room and handed over the settings permissions to Crow.
When she opened the door, a world of ice and snow rushed towards her. The sky was dark and vast. Nanmen Jue was stunned and turned to look at the crow.
“In the last world, you spent most of your time in the Gray Tower and didn’t learn much about how to actually survive in the apocalypse,” Raven said.
Okay, that makes sense.
Nanmen Jue accepted His first training arrangement and immediately exchanged for a combat suit identical to Qin Yehan's. Before she could even finish putting it on, a sense of vigilance rose in her heart. She immediately turned around and saw a radiation monster rushing towards her!
"Hey, isn't this a bit much? At least let them put their pants back on!"
Nanmen Jue let out a loud cry, but her movements were fierce and agile. She tried to dodge the attack with a backflip, but she couldn't control her strength and she was thrown into the air.
Nanmen Jue: "Whoa!!!"
She really hadn't expected this. She frantically steadied herself in mid-air, and as she landed, she twisted her wrist, plunging the scalpel deep into the monster's body.
Compared to struggling to survive in the Gray Dome Tower, killing this monster was now extremely easy for her; the only difficulty was one she had created for herself.
However, as soon as the knife went in, she sensed something was wrong. Her eyes narrowed, she quickly dealt with the monster, and landed on the ground, looking thoughtfully at her knife.
The crow, who had been watching from the side, knew that she had realized something was wrong, and silently flapped its wings.
“This phantom…” Nanmen Jue began, “is it so realistic?”
“Of course it’s true,” said the crow, “because it is true.”
Nanmen Jue was startled and turned around abruptly to look at the already dead monster.
Sure enough, the feel of the knife piercing flesh couldn't be fake.
"Is this your training method..." Nanmen Jue murmured.
The crow preened the feathers on its chest. "That's right, this is where I can help you. So, South Gate, try your best to survive. Here, you really will get hurt, and you really will die."
A familiar, chilling feeling of impending crisis washed over him, and Nanmen Jue laughed out loud.
"Are you really not afraid of me dying?"
“If you really can’t hold on any longer, then let the God of God heal you,” the raven said. “But I will be watching you. If you want to be healed just because you’re afraid of pain and suffering, I won’t allow it.”
Nanmen Jue smiled. "That suits me perfectly. But the problem is, do you really think you can hurt me with something so weak? Aren't you underestimating me a bit?"
The crow didn't speak, but silently moved away.
Behind Him, a huge monster that Nanmenjue was very familiar with slowly appeared. It was bird-shaped, but had no wings and its forelimbs were pitifully short.
Nanmen Jue's pupils contracted, and the fear of almost dying spread from the bottom of her heart. She controlled herself and did not back down, her eyes suddenly becoming sharp.
"Long time no see, Tyrannosaurus Rex."
...
One hour outside is equivalent to one day inside the training ground. Nanmen Jue has no shortage of points right now, so she recklessly squanders them here.
She went out to treat her injuries a few times, rested for a day, and then came back in to treat her injuries, rest, and then come back in again.
She spent at least ten of the fifteen-day transition period on the training field, which is more than two hundred and forty days.
In these two hundred days, Nanmenjue's living environment has changed from frozen land to desert, from high temperature mode to zombie hordes, from giant beasts reverting to futuristic high technology. She has experienced all of these to varying degrees. In pursuit of realism, the crow even simulated a hell on earth, with monsters as numerous as the sea.
Nanmen Jue was surrounded and intercepted in various desperate situations, trying her best to survive. Not only did she suffer physical and mental breakdowns several times, but she would also be taken out by crows to rest when she could no longer bear it. Then she would always come back on her own initiative.
"continue."
"continue……"
"Keep going!!"
She laughed maniacally atop a snow-capped mountain, was buried underground by millions of tons of yellow sand, narrowly escaped death from a sea surge, was hunted down by robots based on her iris records, and ultimately gouged out her own eyes...
Fifteen days later, she was completely transformed. When she met Guan Junren again in the lobby, he didn't even realize what was happening as they passed each other.
Guan Junren turned around abruptly, staring blankly for a moment at the sharper and more upright back she had seen than he remembered, before rushing forward to pat her shoulder.
As soon as he got close, before his hand even touched his shoulder, a hand with distinct knuckles grabbed his wrist. The movement seemed effortless, but Guan Junren broke out in a cold sweat.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch... Little brother, it's me!"
Nanmen Jue turned around, looking at Guan Junren with a somewhat unfamiliar gaze, before finally smiling, "Sorry, I'm a bit paranoid."
For Guan Junren, it had only been about ten days since they last met, but for Nanmen Jue, it felt like more than half a year had passed.
Guan Junren rubbed his wrist, looking at Nanmen Jue with curiosity. The more he looked, the more stunned and shocked he became. He stammered, "Have you not eaten for more than ten days?"
Nanmen Jue was already quite thin after the ordeal at the Gray Dome Tower, but now his thinness has reached another level. His jawline is so defined that his face looks even smaller, and he seems to have changed so much from before.
Just looking into Nanmen Jue's eyes made his legs go weak.
I want to... sit down, or kneel down.
"I went to the training ground for a bit of training," Nanmen Jue said casually. "Shouldn't you be heading to the New World too?"
It's remarkable that she remembered that more than half a year ago, this person said that they came out at the same time, so they should have gone in at the same time.
“Yes…” Guan Junren nodded blankly.
"Let's go then." Nanmen Jue gestured with his chin toward the teleportation zone. "Maybe we'll get lucky and enter the same world."
"Ah, right!" Guan Junren suddenly realized, turned around and followed Nanmen Jue, glancing at her from time to time.
"What do you want to ask?" Nanmen Jue suddenly asked.
Guan Junren flinched as if startled, "I still... don't know your name."
He had been agonizing over this for the past ten days or so, but he felt that since the other person hadn't asked first, it might be too offensive for him to keep asking. So he stared at the private chat window for a while, but still didn't send the message "What's your name?"
Nanmen Jue chuckled silently, "How many worlds have you lived through?"
"Two," Guan Junren said honestly.
Nanmen Jue looked at him. "If we are in the same world this time, you will soon know the answer to this question. If we are not transported to the same world," she paused, "I will tell you when we come back alive."
“…Oh, okay.” Guan Junren nodded, still a little dazed.
He remembered saying he wanted to help the boy, but now he couldn't bring himself to say it.
Although he didn't know what had happened to the boy, judging from the difference in their auras, he almost thought he had met a powerful figure like the leader of one of the four major guilds.
It has to be at least an orange name.
But how could that be? The boy clearly said it himself last time, that she had just passed through a world.
The boy was quite eye-catching along the way. As we were about to enter the apocalypse, everyone was fully armed and wearing combat suits that allowed for easy movement. However, the boy was wearing a light gray casual suit, which made him look youthful, tall, and slender.
What's even more eye-catching is that there's a majestic crow perched on her shoulder.
Since they were all reincarnators, no one thought that someone would bring a living pet into the reincarnation world. They all thought it was some kind of precious item, so quite a few people paid attention to this crow.
Nanmen Jue ignored the attention and discussions around her. She stood in the teleportation area, with Guan Junren right beside her.
She really hoped to teleport the two of them into the same world. Given Guan Junren's appearance, she was a little worried that he wouldn't survive. After all, he had been her tool for answering her questions, and she didn't want a pure-hearted good person to die in this kind of world.
Unfortunately, without any follow-up items, Xiao Nuo was unable to control Nanmen Jue to enter any world.
Nanmen Jue and the crow on his shoulder exchanged a glance, and as if emerging from a cycle of reincarnation, their figures disappeared into a dazzling light.
...
When Nanmen Jue regained consciousness, she immediately reached out to touch the side.
Unable to stretch her arms and legs, she felt as if she were trapped in a sealed container, surrounded by darkness, and her fingers touched only the texture of wood.
Based on its size and shape, it does resemble... a coffin.
The coffin was rather narrow, and when Nanmen Jue moved, he bumped into a furry ball next to him.
"Ouch!" the crow cackled softly, "You're crushing me!"
"Shut up, you're so noisy."
The space was small, and its senses, enhanced by its improved physical condition, were incredibly sharp; even the slightest sound wave would cause Nanmenjue's eardrums to swell.
She listened intently. "Listen, is there a sound outside?"
The coffin was very soundproof, but that didn't stop her from hearing intermittent voices outside, though she couldn't make out what they were saying.
"What do you mean? Last time I was locked up, this time I'm in a coffin. Is this targeting me?"
Nanmen Jue chuckled softly, adjusted her lying position, and was about to curl up her long legs and kick open the coffin lid when suddenly it was bright daylight and someone opened her coffin lid.
A face that, though not particularly old, was covered in stubble and had deep-set, rugged features came into view.
"Hello, you're lying so flat, but you can come out now."
The handsome middle-aged man's voice grew softer and softer, and his sleepy eyes, as if he hadn't slept for three days, fell on Nanmen Jue's head and stopped moving.
"What happened?" someone asked from the side.
The handsome middle-aged man suddenly stood up and leaned closer, almost pressing his face against Nanmen Jue's, as if to say: "Your posture was wrong just now, let me check again."
However, no matter how close he got, his nose almost touching Nanmen Jue's, he still couldn't mistake those three blood-red characters: Nanmen Jue.
He stood there, stunned.
"Have you seen enough?" Nanmen Jue asked.
At such close range, she naturally saw the other person's name.
Lu Yunxiao, also known as Lan Ming.
“Ah…” Lu Yunxiao staggered backward.
"What did you see?" A young man approached in confusion, then turned his head and saw Nanmen Jue's name as well. "..."
Unlike Lu Yunxiao, he wasn't stunned. He gasped in astonishment and roared, "Nanmen Jue!"
As soon as the sound came out, a cacophony of noise erupted, mixed with screams.
Nanmen Jue reached out and braced herself against the edge of the coffin. With a light flip, she sat gracefully on the side of the coffin. Her gaze slowly swept over the people with different expressions on the scene, and her thin lips curled slightly.
"Hi everyone, it seems... you all know me?"
The words caused a huge uproar. Except for one blank-slate newcomer who looked bewildered, everyone else retreated as if facing a formidable enemy, taking out all sorts of weapons.
Oh, there's one exception.
Nanmen Jue's gaze swept past the two people whose names included Entropy Ash and Iron Drill, and landed on the young man whose face was pale and stunned.
Even without looking at the Nanmen Jue badge on his head, I recognized him; it was Guan Junren.
It was followed by the name of a guild: Sticking Together for Warmth.
They actually entered the same world! But Comrade Guan seemed to have been greatly shocked; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that his worldview had collapsed and was being reassembled.
Nanmen Jue didn't greet him. Now she was surrounded by enemies, a plague and a scourge. If she got close to anyone or became overly familiar with them, she would be wishing them a quick death.
Guan Junren seems to be a working person, and presumably he knows how to avoid trouble and won't deliberately try to get close to her. He'll just let her get over the initial surprise.
So Nanmen Jue simply glanced at him indifferently, as if he were treating everyone else the same way.
She seemed unfazed, but others were not.
Entering the cycle of reincarnation is like spinning a lottery wheel. Without specific items, who you travel with depends entirely on luck. Their luck is just too incredible, they directly drew the hidden boss?
With the relentless promotion from the main god and the three guilds these past few days, Nanmen Jue knows without a doubt that his reputation has become utterly tarnished.
With a light scoff, Nanmen Jue had no intention of wasting time with these people. She leisurely sat on the coffin with her legs crossed, waiting for the protection period to pass, and took a look at the introduction of this world.
This is a civilization extremely similar to the real world. Three years ago, a strange fungus suddenly appeared, releasing hyphae and spores that transformed plants and animals into symbiotic zombies known as "parasites." The parasites were both infected and extensions of that strange fungus, which was later called the spore mother.
Because the parasitic growth was so rapid, and it also affected both plants and animals, the world collapsed very quickly. Human society completely crumbled within a few months, turning into a living hell.
The survivors are struggling, and now it is the third year of the apocalypse, with three major forces emerging to rival each other.
First is the isolation facility A-3. As you can tell from its name, it was originally an emergency shelter established by the government. Later, one shelter after another fell, but this one survived and grew stronger.
Secondly, there is the furnace base. It was originally a steel plant, but due to its unique production conditions, it managed to withstand several large-scale shocks by relying on heavy industry, and thus became a powerful force.
As for the last one, it is a church that calls itself the New Alliance. Its ideology is to coexist with the Spore Mother, submit to the Spore Mother, and pray that it will allow humans to coexist with it. In peacetime, this would be condemned as a cult and burned at the stake, but in today's context, it has quite a few followers.
Even the name "spore mother" was originally coined by them.
If you can't beat them, kneel down and call them "Mom," trying to evoke even the slightest bit of maternal love and allow the pitiful, weakened human race to continue to survive on this planet. How can that not be a desperate measure?
After reading the general background information, Nanmen Jue didn't have any particular thoughts. She had experienced this kind of zombie world during her training. Although it wasn't the Mushroom Crisis, it was pretty much the same.
As for the level of danger in this world, it can also be judged by the points gained from killing monsters, so she turned her attention to the quest log.
Number of participants in this world's reincarnation cycle: 18.
This world's mission:
1. Survive for three months and receive a reward of 5,000 points.
2. Take Father "Rayed's" daughter to the isolation ward A-3 and protect her until she leaves. Completion will reward you with 5,000 points, failure will deduct 5,000 points.
3. You will receive points for each parasite you kill; no points will be deducted for each failure.
With just these three points, Nanmen Jue realized at a glance that this world was all about confrontation!
There are three factions and 18 people. Presumably, each faction will be assigned six reincarnators.
The difficulty of passing through the Reincarnation World and the number of people are related to the average level. There are seven people in front of her now. Besides a newbie with no experience, she herself is a gold-named person, and there are two purple-named people, one blue-named person, and two green-named people.
The average grade is frighteningly high.
This world is probably not so easy.
Even though Nanmen Jue is already at a very high level, and she may seem arrogant and frivolous, she doesn't actually underestimate these reincarnation worlds in the slightest. She has never forgotten why the main god created this space: "fear and despair." If reaching the so-called maximum level allows one to act recklessly, wouldn't that be a slap in the face to the main god?
Could a world that could fill Kim Myung-du with fear and despair...?
After Nanmen Jue finished reading the contents, she looked up and saw that everyone was staring intently at her, as if she were a wild beast that had been freed from its shackles and was about to attack people at any moment. Only the blank-slate newcomer was still confused.
Nanmen Jue glanced at the top of her head. Ji Chengying looked to be in her early twenties, with the innocent and naive look of a college student.
She looked around again.
It looked like a small courtyard, with withered yellow weeds stubbornly growing out from under the cracked paving stones, creating a scene of decay and desolation.
What was eerie was that there were several coffins in the courtyard, all of which had been pried open or smashed. It seemed that she wasn't the only one who had crawled out of the coffins. A strange sense of balance rose in Nanmen Jue's heart, and he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
She knew she was now a thorn in the side of the supreme god. Although the raven swore that the supreme god would not suddenly appear in front of her and kill her, there was no guarantee that He wouldn't do something else.
For example, how exactly did the self-destruct mechanism of the first gray tower in that previous world activate? To this day, there is still no clear answer.
"You, are you really Nanmen Jue?"
A wary voice rang out; it was the young man who had come closer to check on the situation.
Dan Peng, purple name, guild name Entropy Ash.
His face was full of vigilance, his muscles were bulging, and he looked like he was gritting his teeth.
Nanmen Jue paused for a moment, wondering what kind of nonsense this was, and said lazily, "I don't think anyone would deliberately create a red name and pretend to be a wanted criminal with a nationwide warrant."
"What? A wanted criminal? This handsome guy is a wanted criminal?"
The clear, bright words came from Ji Chengying, a newcomer to the blank slate. Her mind was switching back and forth between Nanmen Jue and the others; she hadn't quite gotten into the zone yet.
"What are you talking about? And what you just said about the cycle of reincarnation and the God's Space? Is this some kind of reality show game? Why am I suddenly here?"
Nanmen Jue glanced at her with a mixture of interest and regret. In the previous world, she was the only newcomer, and she had deliberately entered the world. She had never seen what a real newcomer looked like. Now she had.
Unfortunately, this newcomer also had a hellish start.
Lu Yunxiao answered her, "Don't worry, take a good look at the system panel and the information in your mind. The answers to your questions are all there."
"I watched it, but I don't believe it!" Ji Chengying, a bold girl, immediately retorted, "Is this really not a reality show? Escape room? Outdoor CS?" She looked at the others.
Both Shan Peng and the woman with the iron drill on her head had a large sniper rifle on their backs.
“Even if it’s a reality show, they can’t just stuff things into your head,” Lu Yunxiao said.
Ji Chengying was taken aback. "Oh, that's true."
The two's slightly offbeat conversation eased the tense atmosphere, but the others remained just as wary of Nanmen Jue.
Dan Peng looked around and suddenly spoke up: "Everyone, we all know what the name Nanmen Jue means. He is a super wanted criminal who was announced by the main god across the entire space for the first time. He once viciously destroyed an entire reincarnation world and killed all the reincarnators in that world. We, Entropy Ash, cannot stand by and watch such a villain."
Seeing that everyone else was listening to him, Shan Peng was quite satisfied. However, when he looked up and saw that Nanmen Jue was also listening attentively with great interest, his face darkened.
He forced himself to continue, "Among the reincarnators killed by Nanmen Jue, there were also members of our Entropy Ash. For both public and private reasons, we Entropy Ash must kill this villain! Moreover, he is a ruthless killer and can destroy the reincarnation world. If he is alive, none of our safety can be guaranteed! For our own safety, I hope everyone will help me to kill this villain together so that everyone can do their mission in peace."
After speaking, he paused for a moment, then turned to the woman with the iron drill on her head, "In terms of killing Nanmen Jue, the iron drill and we are allies. I suppose you will also help me?"
The woman from the Iron Drill had another purple name, Deng Erhuai. Unlike the others who were all wrapped up tightly, she was wearing a tank top and hot pants, with tactical boots on her feet, revealing her long and powerful legs. She casually covered herself with a dirty leather trench coat, and didn't look like she was there to experience life and death, but rather like she was still hungover from a nightclub.
Her curly hair was tied into a high ponytail, and she carried a large sniper rifle on her back. Her face did not agree, but she said, "We have a cooperative relationship among the three parties, so of course I will help."
Dan Peng's expression relaxed slightly. "Good, I'm relieved to hear that. Nanmen Jue was previously unknown, so he must be a newcomer. With at least two of us holding purple titles, we'll definitely be able to solve this scourge for all the reincarnators in the entire space."
Upon hearing this, Guan Junren, who had been silent all along, stirred, his lips trembling as if he wanted to say something, but a soft laugh interrupted him.
Everyone looked in the direction from which the sound came.
A crow perched on Nanmen Jue's shoulder, laughing arrogantly and mockingly. Her eyes were disdainful as she clapped her hands.
"A brilliant speech, much better than the eloquence of that Entropy Ember I met before."
"But is there something that you've all inherited?" Nanmen Jue asked humbly, "This kind of foolish arrogance—is it your guild's family tradition to come in and immediately start giving orders, thinking that everyone should serve you?"
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