GRMFBS CH185

Gu Jiancheng wasn’t just acting on hot-blooded impulsiveness, charging in recklessly. He had his trump cards.

The Monster Doctor occupying the Candle Dragon Remnant didn’t mean he could truly turn it into his own. This world despised death and things related to Infinite, so the Monster Doctor’s rules would inevitably be weakened within the Candle Dragon Remnant.

Another reason was that he had previously devoured the cloakroom Black Nest and obtained its rules. Gu Jiancheng sought out its weaknesses within its rules—after all, that was only the rule of a small Black Nest space; it couldn’t possibly compare to the rules of a major world.

Thus, Gu Jiancheng broke into the Candle Dragon Remnant.

The Monster Doctor had set up a bunch of flesh and blood vocalizers inside, laughing weirdly at him from all directions, spouting a bunch of perverted remarks about wanting to swallow him, turn him into a part of himself, conduct experimental research on him, and how they would surely gain the wisdom of eternal life through this research.

Gu Jiancheng finally understood why the Monster Doctor was able to survive coming out of a Black Nest.

Back when he kicked this guy into the Black Nest, the Monster Doctor was already no longer a normal human.

After this sick pervert finished researching anomalous monsters, he modified himself!

He didn’t know how many traits of anomalies he had integrated into himself, but perhaps one or two of them happened to be compatible with the Black Nest he fell into at the time. Thus, the Monster Doctor temporarily survived in that Black Nest, followed by integration. The Black Nest became a part of him, or it could also be said that he became a part of the Black Nest—at least when the Monster Doctor was still human, he didn’t look this disgusting, nor this deranged.

“Are you unaccustomed to my current appearance? My dearest experimental subject.” An upper body twisted out of a flesh sac, wearing half a white lab coat and rimless glasses. The Monster Doctor very much liked to disguise himself as a gentle and refined person; he said early on that he used this appearance to deceive many people into following him, and later these pitiful folks mostly became his experimental subjects.

“This current appearance isn’t very good, but that’s because it’s only a half-finished product.” That half-body opened its arms toward him, “We need further evolution, you need my help, we can become perfect together.”

Shadows abruptly shot out, and Gu Jiancheng expressionlessly shredded this sick pervert’s half-mimicry into mush.

“How are your aftereffects? My pitiful friend.” His voice emerged from another fleshy wall, “Why deny it? You need me, just as I need you. Your abilities can help us become perfect, and I can resolve your pain.”

These voices, near and far, were hallucinatory and bizarre. The Monster Doctor guided maliciously.

He knew of Deep Shadow’s aftereffects; this Top 1, looked up to by countless people, was actually just a pitiful worm deeply mired in his own shadows.

Did he arrange so many anomalies just to stall Deep Shadow’s footsteps? Of course not! He wanted to induce Deep Shadow’s hallucinations.

Deep Shadow’s willpower was very strong. He had once seen Deep Shadow deeply mired in hallucinations, yet even then he could act as if nothing was wrong.

Others looking at him thought it was the aloofness and indifference of the Top 1. Who knew that at that time, he couldn’t even see his own location, his sight, hearing, and even touch were replaced by hallucinations, and he was acting purely on his memory from before falling into the hallucination?

He could barely wait; why hasn’t he broken down yet?

“Can you still hold on? What are you seeing right now? That collapsed amusement park? Do you feel the burning flames? They are scorching you. Do you hear the screams and weeping? Does it feel familiar? My dear experimental subject, that is you as a child. Do you still remember those anguished wails filled with pain?

“You can still walk steadily, what an astounding willpower you have. But why bother? Why endure the pain?

“All your pain is because you made the wrong choices.

“You entrusted your childhood self to people you thought were friends; now you should clearly see their true colors.”

This twisted flesh and blood approached, and the Monster Doctor gathered a new mimicry, pressing close to Gu Jiancheng’s face: “Do not make a wrong choice again.”

Look, this expressionless look of his right now made him seem still very composed. But he couldn’t see anything anymore; before his eyes were only hallucinations.

The Monster Doctor moved his most core sac over; he was going to devour him.

He reached out his hand, smiling smugly: “Come, hand it over to me…”

Gu Jiancheng handed him a massive fist.

Shadows rapidly spread, covering the Monster Doctor’s core in the blink of an eye. In just a mere instant, his new mimicry and core sac had already melted away within the shadows.

The Monster Doctor was both shocked and enraged, because the entire nest was collapsing.

Deep Shadow had found the weakness in its rules!

“You devoured the Black Nest I left behind?!”

Gu Jiancheng sneered. He endured the disgust and watched this dumbass approach self-righteously, just waiting for him to expose his core part and then kill this dumbass in one fell swoop.

The Monster Doctor looked extremely unwilling to accept his defeat; the collapsing Black Nest was still twisting and struggling, occasionally spitting out a few half-finished anomalies.

But the shadows had already silently enveloped everything; this deranged flesh and blood had no chance of escaping whatsoever. Gu Jiancheng patiently waited for it to completely perish; he wouldn’t give it another chance to survive.

The way this flesh and blood twisted and struggled was still so disgusting, but the way they collapsed into ashes was much more pleasing to the eye.

As the Black Nest collapsed to its end, the Monster Doctor calmed down again.

He never thought Deep Shadow could devour that Black Nest. He could kill that Black Nest, tear it to shreds, crush its core, but he shouldn’t have been able to devour it.

Deep Shadow’s aftereffects were clearly so severe that he was only a hair’s breadth away from breaking down. How could he still dare to do something like devouring a Black Nest? Didn’t he fear the pollution?

“No wonder… your aftereffects are cured.” The Monster Doctor muttered to himself, “You didn’t fall into a hallucination just now.”

Gu Jiancheng sensed something wasn’t quite right.

This Black Nest wasn’t complete enough. It only managed to take shape by relying on the Candle Dragon Remnant.

But the Monster Doctor’s strength shouldn’t be limited to this.

“This isn’t your entirety?”

The Monster Doctor laughed loudly: “Correct, my dear experimental subject, this is not the end, it is far from the end! I look forward to our next meeting!”

Gu Jiancheng’s face darkened.

Your mom’s sick pervert! Fought for half a day only for him to say there was a split entity. Why was this thing so hard to kill?!

He crushed the still-babbling Monster Doctor to death, and after checking the vicinity to ensure not a single trace of this disgusting thing remained, Gu Jiancheng calmed his mood and went on the forum to find Approaching Science.

The Monster Doctor had relied on the Candle Dragon Remnant to split; what his split portion was doing wasn’t certain. He had to give the Wan Yao Alliance and the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau a heads-up.

The clues were broken, and he also needed Approaching Science to help him continue searching for clues.

Zhan Yan relayed the message for Deep Shadow, and went to search for the Monster Doctor again.

Perhaps because the big shot Deep Shadow finished off a part of the Monster Doctor this time, it caused the Monster Doctor’s information interference to drop, or perhaps because he rode on the coattails of the big shot Deep Shadow’s gossip threads this time to read quite a few of the Monster Doctor’s gossip threads, increasing his information stability regarding him; this time when Zhan Yan searched for the Monster Doctor again, it wasn’t just [Loading…].

He started being able to see some gossip threads such as [The Monster Doctor produced the anomaly “XX”, and the anomaly “XX” is wandering somewhere.].

Zhan Yan scrolled through the gossip threads while waiting for replies from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and the Wan Yao Alliance, incidentally asking the big shot Deep Shadow as well.

Approaching Science: [Big shot, how is your condition?]

I Just Saved the World!: [I am very well. What’s wrong?]

Zhan Yan didn’t dare to fully believe him. Not only was this big shot boundlessly arrogant, but he was also stubborn.

He flipped through the gossip threads again and didn’t find any threads about Deep Shadow’s condition being bad. Sigh, it seems the big shot Deep Shadow’s mysterious healing-type lover is quite formidable.

Approaching Science: [Big shot, I found some locations of anomalies produced by the Monster Doctor in the past.]

I Just Saved the World!: [Give them to me.]

Tsk, the big shot’s style is still as concise and neat as ever.

Zhan Yan sorted the anomaly addresses he found by distance and sent them over.

Approaching Science: [Big shot, I’m quite interested in the Candle Dragon Remnant, can you tell me about it?]

Gu Jiancheng had already come out of that Candle Dragon Remnant. He picked a clean spot nearby to sit down, bending one leg while typing on the screen.

I Just Saved the World!: [There’s nothing much to say. The original scenery inside this Candle Dragon Remnant was already ruined by the Monster Doctor, it’s empty inside now.]

Approaching Science: [What does empty look like?]

I Just Saved the World!: [That depends on what you can see.]

That was a space-time distortion point; on the distorted interface were remnants of space-time. Some people couldn’t see anything, only a vast expanse of white. Some people had relevant talents and could see the residual traces of time and space. These traces would manifest into different appearances depending on individual talents.

Gu Jiancheng had seen them many times when entering those game instances in the past.

At first, he treated those things as cutscenes of sort. Only later did he learn that it was the imprint of a world being continuously restarted.

He had asked some people; most people only saw a vast expanse of white or profound black. Some people could see new images after redeeming space-time related abilities, and a very few people, like him, could see it right from the beginning. However, what everyone saw was different.

Some saw brilliant colorful lights, some saw moving lines, some saw things like color blocks smeared by a painter.

What Gu Jiancheng saw was the trajectory of shadows.

It was very wondrous. In pure blackness, there should have been nothing at all, but he saw those trajectories. Saying he “saw” it wasn’t actually very accurate; pure darkness has no color, so he shouldn’t have been able to see anything.

It was a kind of perception. He perceived the trajectory of space-time sneaking through the shadows.

The big shot Deep Shadow felt that thing wasn’t very interesting. However, Approaching Science was an information-type with a strong curiosity, and simultaneously lacked frontline experience. It was completely normal for him to be curious about this thing.

I Just Saved the World!: [If you want to experience it yourself, I can take you to see it if there’s a chance.]

Of course, the premise was that Approaching Science dared to trust him and step from behind the scenes to the front stage.

Zhan Yan was tempted. However, he still gave up. His current situation was very troublesome, with a bunch of big shots wearing personas right beside him. If he accidentally let one of them find out…

The youngest child of the family sneaking out to meet a stranger, and this stranger was Deep Shadow…

Forget it, forget it.

The Wan Yao Alliance suddenly replied to his message. Only, the one replying wasn’t Luo Wang, but his dad.

Chongming: [I am going to retrieve that Candle Dragon Remnant.]

[Is Deep Shadow still there?]