Chapter 25: Even Deities Fear
That huge blood-red flower standing majestically under the Blood Moon like a mountain serves as a signal, crudely admonishing humans that they are not the sole wisdom in eternity, nor powerful individuals among the myriad races of the universe.
Humans are not great, it may not be great either, but it is absolutely stronger than humans.
The Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata spreads its tangled root system to about five hundred meters in radius, and within this range, no life survives, whether the dominators of Earth’s surface, humans, or cockroaches hailed by humans as one of the most resilient creatures in terms of vitality, almost none can escape; the bloody smell and icy temperature slowly rise over the Earth.
He Jia’an and Bu Gaojun’s failure proves that in the face of absolute power, any conspiracy is just self-conceited petty cleverness.
Li Yingqi, who was instantly devoured by the vines, corroborates that temporary survival is only to welcome the next death; facing the unknown power, one will ultimately die in an unknown manner, with death inescapable like destiny.
In the ruins covered by Flesh and Blood vines, several deformed humans with three arms crawl out from the ruined walls, facing the huge flower proudly standing under the Blood Moon, prostrating in worship; they perform respectful obeisance with movements humans cannot achieve or understand, muttering languages humans cannot comprehend, constantly praising the deity they faith.
The Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata seems to hear the worship of those deformed people, so the surrounding Flesh and Blood vines do not devour them, merely passing by their feet or sides, ignoring their being.
Just as the Three-handed Ice Giants feel they have finally successfully invaded this world, the great being they faith, the immortal deity, suddenly shows an abnormality they cannot understand; the huge flower formed by Flesh and Blood tubes coiled in a certain pattern suddenly trembles, and then the eerie shudder quickly spreads from the flower core, extending to every Flesh and Blood vine in this area.
The Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata suddenly suffers harm the Three-handed Ice Giants cannot understand; the Three-handed Ice Giants do not know where the attack comes from or why it is so intense. The pained Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata struggles fiercely; instinct’s resistance and survival consciousness make it lose concern for surrounding things; in just an instant, it completely devours its believers—those Three-handed Ice Giants who transferred their consciousness and souls into modified human bodies—using them as nutrients to cure its wounds.
Just now, the Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata unleashed its great power akin to a miracle of divine might, shaking off the erosion of the terrifying green fire and devouring all life around it. But it does not realize that even it has things it cannot casually swallow into its stomach, such as the Blessing residing in Yu Lianyun’s body.
When the Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata devours every life, besides absorbing each life’s vitality, it also digests each life’s memory and soul for its own use; in this process, it discovers that in the memory of one of the human individuals it devoured, there exists a danger it cannot understand.
It cannot understand human emotions, so naturally it cannot comprehend human fear, hatred, and anger.
In the face of long life, thought, emotion, knowledge, and even life and death are all meaningless to it with infinite time; desire is the power driving it to live, so even when directly confronting two Incarnations of Blessing in the Shelter earlier, it did not take those two Blessing Incarnations seriously.
To it, they are at most aggregates born from negative emotions due to some unknown power; though ferocious and cruel, they cannot cause it any actual harm or damage its essence.
However, now it finally realizes it has misjudged; it has truly encountered a “ghost”!
That segment of memory existing in the mind of a human named Yu Lianyun actually harbors something called Blessing; on the surface, Blessing is a mishmash of human malice and negative emotions, an existence between outsider creatures and non-biological entities, but only by personally experiencing the power of Blessing will one understand that Blessing is actually a derivative of the most primal emotion in the universe, an offspring named fear.
Will a deity fear?
When a deity starts bleeding, it will naturally understand this most basic emotion.
And just now, the incarnation on Earth of the deity worshipped by the Three-handed Ice Giants—the Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata—has been deeply contaminated by the Blessing in the video tape due to digesting Yu Lianyun’s memory of the Blessing video tape.
Blessing to the Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata is like the Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata to humans.
The power of Blessing entwines it; that relentless curse wants to drag it into the purgatory of corruption on the seventh day in Earth’s time view, returning its spirit and soul to the abyss of despair.
As a “deity,” the Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata has far sharper “perception” than humans; when seeing the Woman in White in the video tape recording show it the countdown of its life, it truly foresees its own death date.
Roar!!!
At this moment, the Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata falls into its own madness and despair; nearly substantial black malignant gas entwines its incarnation body, rooting into its essential being, like a malignant disease.
“Will an abnormal god go mad too?” The middle-aged man in a black vest and white shirt watches the horrifying demonic flower rampage and vent wildly on the Earth through the broadcast footage from the Mysterious Group’s helicopter, its mental state hysterical like a patient who has learned of their incurable disease.
So-called abnormal god naturally refers to the powerful life faith-ed by anomalous lives, abbreviated as anomalous deity.
At this moment, this elegant man, the behind-the-scenes leader of the Mysterious Group, revered as Group Leader by a crowd of Mystic Investigators, has an unusually dazed expression, because it is his first time sensing such human-like emotions from an abnormal god; based on past experience, he only felt that all anomalous creatures lack human emotions, cold and dangerous like the universe, but now he understands they are not entirely emotionless; it is just that humans’ insignificance does not reach the level to stir their moods.
“So… you damn things can go mad too!” The middle-aged man grits his teeth and angrily pounds the sofa armrest; the footage shows only the ruined buildings of the Mysterious Group Headquarters and the corpses of every Mystic Investigator who perished with precious lives; he curses, mocks, and is excited.
From this moment, the Mysterious Group Group Leader decides he will let all humans know that those terrifying abnormal gods are not invincible, those deities who can easily trample humans like ants are not flawless; they too possess emotions similar to humans.
Look, the deity is afraid!
When the deity foresees its own death, in the view that “in the eternal river of time, even death itself will disappear,” whose death is meaningless to whom?
The Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata rampages on the Earth for an entire night until the sky brightens and the Blood Moon is defeated by dawn; only then does the Flesh and Blood Lycoris radiata stop its actions, slumping like a child accepting the cruel reality that “the world has no Ultraman.”
The huge demonic flower flashes once all over, then suddenly disappears; a female corpse in a Red Wedding Dress falls from over fifty meters in the sky, the corpse turning into brilliant stardust powder in the air and dissipating from the world, leaving only a fluttering Red Wedding Dress, swaying, finally draping over the naked Yu Lianyun.
Beside Yu Lianyun, there are dozens of naked men and women sleeping peacefully, quietly lying underground over thirty meters below the horizon. When subsequent Mysterious Group members return to headquarters for search and rescue and see this scene, all are deeply shocked by it…
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