Chapter 78 The First Encounter Between the Main God and the Evil God: Cultists Appear in the Mirror...
Zhou Fangdong noticed that the cultists who controlled the ghosts were losing ground.
This is probably because this area is a dungeon created by the main god, and it is the main battlefield of the main god's ghosts and monsters. In addition, the dungeon has an isolation effect, so the ghosts and monsters brought by the cultists from the outside world cannot be replenished with power, which leads to their repeated defeats.
Zhou Fangdong did not want to see the Bone Inheritance Society win, nor did he want to see the Lord God win.
He was prepared to intervene in the battle.
He originally planned to use the giant blade directly, but Zhou Fangdong was afraid that if he attacked the main god's side, the cultists would escape, and he was also afraid that if he attacked the cultists, the main god's monsters would break free and attack the ordinary people in the instance...
Seeing that the cultists seemed capable of holding out for a while, Zhou Fangdong decided to test what skills his slime body possessed. If he could perform area-of-effect attacks, that would be great, and he wouldn't have to worry about any spies escaping.
Judging from the teleportation just now, this body can transform into a clump of mud in the mirror world and devour the dungeon's power. He just entered after gnawing a hole in the dungeon's boundary.
If the whole body can turn into mud, can't a single hand do the same?
Zhou Fangdong tried to change his hand... His hand didn't change, but several holes suddenly appeared on his arm skin, and tentacles made of several black substances stretched out from those holes, making the scene somewhat disgusting.
Besides, these tentacles aren't very effective at extending... Forget it, I'll just turn into a slime and sneak over there.
Zhou Fangdong's body slowly melted away, first losing its human form, then turning into a black slime half the height of a person, and finally completely merging with the ground, becoming a pitch-black shadow.
The shadow appeared almost instantly below the two groups of ghosts fighting.
Zhou Fangdong stretched out his body, cutting off the cultists' escape route. Then, seizing the opportunity, he lashed out more than a dozen tentacles, like a gold miner, grabbing the monsters on the main god's side and dragging them all into his slime body.
The cult members, who had just been beaten and were struggling to breathe, were stunned by the scene before they quickly realized what was happening and their faces lit up with elation.
They turned around and looked in the direction from which the tentacles came. At the same time, in order to extend the tentacles, Zhou Fangdong emerged half of his body from the shadows on the ground.
"It's the gods! The gods have come to help us...?"
After the cult leader clearly saw the appearance of the 'god' who had come to help them, his voice, which had been excited at the beginning, grew softer and softer until it became barely audible.
He always knew that his god was multifaceted and had no fixed form, especially the newly summoned clones, or the completely out-of-control clones, which were nothing more than a lump of mud that only knew how to devour offerings without restraint.
The fully-formed divine avatar, possessing only a simple consciousness, merely resembles a human in appearance; in reality, it is a pseudo-human robot that only knows how to execute commands.
The most perfect divine clone is the kind created by the priest, but that requires the priest to perform a soul-splitting ritual to give the clone humanity.
The cultist initially thought the helpers were pseudo-human deities wandering in the mirror world, but the moment he saw the deity's true appearance, he began to doubt his own eyes…
He stared in disbelief at the deity with his muddy lower body and green hair upper body, a bizarre and unconventional appearance, and was speechless for a moment.
What the heck is this?! Whose appearance did their god take as inspiration? How did it end up looking like this?!
Although the powerful pollution was enough to prove that this was their great god, that abstract face was just too jarring to look at.
To his shame, the moment he saw that face, he felt a pang of doubt about his own faith.
Is this what it means to not look directly at God...?
He couldn't question the gods' choice; having such thoughts showed his faith was still too wavering.
"What are you looking at? After you kill the main god, it'll be your turn." Zhou Fangdong said unhappily, continuing to drag the monsters controlled by the cultists with his tentacles. Then, while they were stunned, he flicked out a few more tentacles, swallowing several of the monsters controlled by the bald man.
Upon hearing Zhou Fangdong speak, the cultist was even more shocked, followed by wild joy: "My Lord God?! You can actually communicate with us—could it be that your true consciousness can now descend on its own?"
He was certain that the High Priest had recently only created a clone from his soul, and that clone had been lost and would not appear in the Mirror World.
The fact that this green-haired god clone could actually talk to him and express anger and displeasure proved that the god could project a trace of consciousness onto the clone!
Their preparations for the ritual in the mirror world were worthwhile; their efforts over the years had not been in vain. Although it was just a mirror world, their divine consciousness was already able to actively invade this world!
The bald cult members immediately knelt on the ground, and the leader said with a fanatical expression, "We are sorry, Your Majesty, it is all our fault. You have already given us divine guidance, yet we still allowed the Supreme God to infiltrate this place... It is all our dereliction of duty. Please punish us. It is our honor to be one with you!"
Are these bald guys crazy?
They even blended together, and Zhou Fangdong was afraid of getting diarrhea from eating these unclean things.
He pulled a giant blade directly from his body, and used a tentacle to control it, devouring the monsters while simultaneously hacking the bald men to death.
Those cultists never understood, even in death, how their god had evolved so quickly that he had learned to kill with a knife.
After these cultists died, the monsters they controlled began to go out of control.
Fortunately, Zhou Fangdong was well-prepared and had already set a trap for the hunter.
In the instant those vengeful ghosts fled, a circular wall made of silt suddenly rose from the ground. The wall quickly rose and closed, like a large iron pot falling from the sky, directly covering all the ghosts and monsters... as well as the corpses of the cultists lying on the ground.
It wasn't until Zhou Fangdong had controlled the slime's body to swallow all of these things that he realized something was wrong.
...He seems to have eaten the corpses of those cult members.
It's not really eating. Using this slime body to devour corpses and monsters is more like using the original body's palm to grasp a bunch of things, without the physical sensation of eating.
Even so, I feel like my standards are getting lower and lower...
If things continue like this, I don't think I'll feel any guilt about using the [Half-Body Shrine] skill to devour ghosts.
well……
Zhou Fangdong tried to shrink his body and reshape it into a human form.
During this time, he found himself seemingly devouring not only the corpses of the cultists, but also their souls.
After crushing and digesting the souls of those cultists, Zhou Fangdong learned from their memories why they had appeared in this mirror world.
It turns out that this mirror world belongs to the Bone Inheritance Society, and it is the site of their ritual to revive the consciousness of the evil god.
The main god, on the other hand, was the invading party. Because it failed several times in its attempts to create a copy in the real world, it chose to create a copy in this mirror world.
In the mirror world region chosen by the Supreme God, there happened to be a group of cultists patrolling.
After discovering the instance of the God's Descent, these cultists summoned the monsters they controlled in an attempt to destroy the instance... which is the scene Zhou Fangdong just witnessed.
Zhou Fangdong couldn't tell whether the main god did it intentionally or accidentally. Was the main god helping him find an important stronghold of the Heirs of the Bone Society...?
If the main god hadn't created a copy in the mirror world and then pulled his attention by arresting people on a large scale in the real world, he wouldn't have been able to find the secret stronghold of the Heir Bone Society, which was hidden so deeply.
Moreover, Zhou Fangdong discovered from the memories of these cultists that the ritual to revive the evil god's consciousness seemed to exist not only in the mirror world... It seemed that they needed to perform the same ritual in many locations at the same time in order to truly awaken the evil god.
Only after the ritual formations at these locations are activated simultaneously will the consciousness of that evil god be fully revived, and its true form be able to descend into this world.
However, because these cultists in the mirror world are only responsible for the mirror copy and are unaware of the locations of other rituals, Zhou Fangdong has no way of knowing where the other ritual locations are for the time being.
However, he also discovered from these people's memories that the summoning ritual required a very important material—the blood of a blood sacrifice.
Blood sacrifice—Zhou Fangdong immediately thought of Yin Xi, the tenant who had just moved into room 205.
On Yin Xi's tenant profile, the system specifically noted, "You can chat with this tenant; the interrupted ritual seems to have an important clue."
Could this crucial clue be the location of the ritual formation that revived the evil god's consciousness and brought him down?
Zhou Fangdong decided to talk to Yin Xi about this matter after he finished dealing with the mirror image.
Once these ritual sites are found, the channels through which the evil god descends can be completely blocked, and the evil god can be driven out of this world.
After devouring all the ghosts and monsters and making sure none were missing, Zhou Fangdong tried to reshape his human form.
He took a deep breath, but the slime body, which had expanded several times in size, merely bounced as he inhaled, showing no intention of reshaping into human form.
Zhou Fangdong let out another breath...
I feel a bit uncomfortable, like I'm stuffed up, as if I need some time to digest before I can reshape myself into a human form.
However, since he was going to send Zhao Dawei and the other ordinary people away from this main god instance, Zhou Fangdong was afraid that appearing in front of them in this muddy form would frighten them.
Zhou Fangdong took another deep breath and, relying on his strong willpower, stubbornly sculpted himself into a human shape.
We need to get Zhao Dawei and the others out of here before the human figures disappear... Zhou Fangdong dragged his body and tried to move towards the supermarket.
After the strange green-haired tenant left, Zhao Dawei stayed at the supermarket entrance.
About ten minutes later, Zhao Dawei was horrified to discover that the green-haired guy who had just left had returned.
Moreover, this green-haired creature is even more terrifying than the previous one.
Zhao Dawei watched in despair as the indescribable creature approached him, feeling that his mental endurance had reached its limit.
Although the green-haired creature's appearance was very abstract and jarring, it could still be described as human.
But what's in front of me...
As Zhao Dawei watched the thing struggling to maintain its human form clumsily walk towards him, he felt his hair stand on end and his heart nearly leap out of his throat.
The non-human creature that approached him was like a lump of filthy mud that had been forcibly molded into a human shape by some unknown force.
Although it was trying very hard to maintain its human body, its skin surface continued to undulate like boiling water, as if countless invisible insects were repeatedly burrowing in and out under its skin.
Its already abstract features became even more frightening—the sharp, angular lines on its face were extremely unstable, like constantly writhing skin, constantly changing. Sometimes stretching, sometimes twisting, like a pixelated image twitching after a computer screen has been distorted.
The only unchanging feature that allows people to identify it is its consistently green buzz cut.
Help.
Zhao Dawei felt like he was about to lose his balance.
He stared at that inhuman creature for just a few seconds, and his eyes started to sting unbearably, as if his mind had been corrupted.
God knows how much courage it took for him to stand firmly at the supermarket entrance.
—The thing's terrifying appearance isn't the point; the point is that it's trying to get closer to him!
As the non-human creature approached him, its body kept collapsing and reshaping itself. With each movement, a thick, tar-like black slime was flung off its body, leaving a wet, filthy black trail on the ground.
Is this really not a ghost?
If this isn't a ghost, then what is?
In his panic, Zhao Dawei suddenly heard cheers coming from the supermarket behind him. The people seemed to be saying something like "the dungeon has been cleared".
"Did you clear the level...?" A bitter smile appeared on Zhao Dawei's face.
Once you look outside and realize what you're about to face, you probably won't be as happy as you are now.
As Zhou Fangdong approached the supermarket entrance, he clearly felt the power of the main god in this instance area suddenly increase.
Zhou Fangdong's gaze sharpened. He scooped up the fallen eyeball, put it back in its socket, and looked up at the sky.
He could sense something unseen approaching, seemingly trying to take away the people in the supermarket.
The inverted architectural scenes in the sky are gradually crumbling, with the remains of buildings, bricks, and tiles falling like snowflakes, disappearing just before hitting the ground.
A crack appeared out of nowhere, and within the pitch-black crevice, a circular outline resembling the sun faintly emerged.
The circular object is light blue and surrounded by countless rings of light composed of data codes, resembling planetary rings.
As the circular outline solidified and drew closer, the sphere's appearance changed... A huge, closed eye made of data appeared on the sphere's surface.
Zhou Fangdong could clearly feel that the force pulling him had become stronger, so he simply released the restraints on his body.
His slime body rapidly grew taller and expanded, its lower half completely transforming into a muddy mass, directly enveloping the supermarket below.
As his lower body completely turned into mud, Zhou Fangdong felt his upper body stabilize.
He quickly reshaped his handsome green buzz cut and prepared to confront the phantom.
...He had already sensed that the blue circular phantom in the sky must be a phantom projected by the main god.
Because Zhou Fangdong's presence directly isolated the teleportation power, the blue circular phantom in the sky trembled, and the giant eye on the surface of the sphere slowly opened.
When the giant eye saw what was blocking its power, the entire sphere flickered as if there was a malfunction.
After a moment of silence, a cold, electronic voice suddenly rang out:
"I never imagined that your true form would be like this... No wonder you never wanted to see me..."
"This powerful corrupting force... no wonder you are an evil god. The filth and evil you possess cannot be concealed even in human form."
"It was wrong of me to invade your territory this time, but please restrain your power and stop devouring my copies. We agreed to invade together and share this world equally. If you break your promise again, don't blame me..."
"What are you babbling about? Get out of here!" Zhou Fangdong noticed that while this thing was talking, it was also secretly increasing its teleportation power, trying to steal someone from his sight. So he simply stopped listening to its nonsense.
He completely unleashed all the power of this slime body.
Because his slime body is also a ghost tenant, it has the ability to directly erode the main god instance, just like when he used Mu Yuechan's body to erode the tourist town instance.
Using this method to erode the dungeon yields less profit... After transforming the dungeon into an apartment complex, I only received 1,000 Ghost Coins.
The highly polluting black substance quickly engulfed the area. The slime-like body seemed to move slowly, but the moment it spread, darkness descended.
The black asphalt, seemingly alive, enveloped all the buildings in the area almost instantly.
The silt flowed past supermarket signs and train station signs, melted into hot spring water, and swallowed the steel pipes and scaffolding of construction sites... Everything was swallowed up by the living darkness, and the bizarre mirror world that was originally like a jigsaw puzzle was transformed into a pitch-black swamp dominated by silt.
That indescribable, gigantic mass of sludge swallowed everything, including light. The pitch-black substance patched up the cracks in the sky, completely isolating the power of the supreme god.
[Congratulations, host! You have successfully infiltrated the main god's instance!]
[Erosion Dungeon Reward: Apartment Amenities [Mirror Slime Street] that can increase tenants' sanity bar, 1000 Ghost Coins]
[[Slime Street] is completely separated from the Mirror World, becoming part of the apartment complex's perimeter facilities. The host can enter the Mirror World through this area, but people from the Mirror World cannot invade this area.]
[[Slime Street] Before the ghost tenants were placed, only the host could teleport to this area; apartment tenants could not go there.]
After reading the reward pop-ups, Zhou Fangdong felt that even if he lost a thousand ghost coins, it was still okay. It was equivalent to him establishing a teleportation point in the Mirror World, so he wouldn't need the Ghost Mirror to come in later.
The location from which one enters the mirror world through the ghost mirror is random, making it easy for cultists within the mirror world to discover them.
However, the Mirror World is much more concealed once you enter from Slime Street.
Having just learned that the Mirror World is one of the locations where the cultists of the Bone Society hold rituals to revive evil gods, he must monitor this area in real time.
The world in the mirror is quite dangerous, so to prevent tenants from accidentally entering it, no ghost tenants will be placed in Slime Street.
After confirming that he had completely taken control of the main god instance, Zhou Fangdong began to shrink his body, attempting to reassemble it.
Letting go is easy, but taking it back is difficult.
Zhou Fangdong managed to collect a giant black slime that was three meters tall, but it could no longer transform into a human form.
Hopefully, his muddy state won't frighten ordinary people.
Zhao Dawei felt a moment of darkness before his eyes. When the light came back on, the eerie green hair had disappeared, leaving only a giant mound of black sludge more than three meters high.
This gave him a huge sigh of relief, and his spirits, which were on the verge of collapse, calmed down considerably.
After the light reappeared, the ordinary people behind him started saying things like 'the points system has disappeared,' but Zhao Dawei was no longer paying attention to the people in the supermarket. He noticed that the black slime at the entrance had already surged into the supermarket.
He was about to say something when he realized that the seemingly slow-moving mud had suddenly appeared in front of him. In the blink of an eye, Zhao Dawei found himself back in the real world, back at the train station where he had disappeared.
Besides him, there were sixteen other survivors standing at Green Park Station.
Further out from the bus station, investigators from the supervisory bureau had cordoned off the area with caution tape.
Seeing them appear out of nowhere in the station, the investigators showed no surprise and quickly surrounded them.
Zhou Fangdong remained in room 206. While watching the live stream of the instance, he was also using the [Linjiang City Map] to observe the movement of the small red dot representing Li Zhe.
After confirming that the investigator had arrived at Green Garden Station, he sent all the ordinary people who had been caught up in the instance out of the mirror world and left them at the station for Li Zhe and his team to retrieve.
After doing all this, he sent the slime's body back to the apartment.
Looking at the giant black slime that had grown much fatter, Zhou Fangdong sighed and steered it back to the hidden room on the second floor.
The Mirror God instance was perfectly resolved, and all the missing citizens returned... Not only did I gain 1,000 Ghost Coins and an apartment-related facility, but I also learned that the Mirror World was an important ritual site for the cultists to revive the evil god.
Thank you, God, for the information.
Zhou Fangdong stood up and put the Ghost Mirror back into his inventory.
He planned to first buy a mid-level fully automatic cleaning tool to tidy up room 206, then go to room 205 to talk to Yin Xi and see if she knew the locations of other rituals for resurrecting evil gods.
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