GRMFBS CH185

Gu Jiancheng wasn’t acting rashly from hot-headed impulse. He had his trump cards.

The monster doctor entrenched in the Zhulong afterimage didn’t mean he could truly make the Zhulong afterimage his own. This world loathed things related to death and the Infinite. The monster doctor’s rules would inevitably be weakened inside the Zhulong afterimage.

Another reason was that last time he’d devoured the wardrobe Black Nest and obtained its rules from within. Gu Jiancheng had found its weakness within those rules—after all, it was only the rules of a small Black Nest space. It couldn’t compare with the rules of the greater world.

Gu Jiancheng stormed into the Zhulong afterimage just like that.

Inside, the monster doctor had set up a bunch of flesh sound devices, grotesquely laughing at him from all directions, delivering a series of deranged statements about wanting to devour him, turn him into part of himself, conduct experimental research on him, and how they would surely gain the wisdom of eternal life through research.

Gu Jiancheng finally understood why the monster doctor had survived from inside the Black Nest.

When he’d kicked this guy into the Black Nest back then, the monster doctor was already no longer a normal human.

This sick pervert had modified himself after researching abnormal monsters!

Who knew how many abnormal characteristics he’d fused into his own body? Perhaps one or two of them happened to align with the Black Nest he’d fallen into at that time. So the monster doctor temporarily survived in that Black Nest, then came fusion—the Black Nest became part of him, or perhaps he became part of the Black Nest. At least when the monster doctor was still human, he didn’t look this disgusting or this insane.

“Are you not adapting to my current appearance? My dearest experimental subject.” A torso twisted out from the meat sac, wearing half a white coat and a pair of rimless glasses. The monster doctor very much enjoyed disguising himself as a refined person. Earlier, he’d said he used this appearance to trick many people into following him. Later, most of these poor souls became his experimental subjects.

“This appearance isn’t very good now, but that’s because it’s still only a semi-finished product.” That half body opened its arms toward him. “We need to evolve further. You need my help. We can become perfect together.”

Shadows suddenly probed out. Gu Jiancheng expressionlessly crushed this sick pervert’s half mimicry.

“How are your aftereffects? My poor friend.” His voice came from another part of the flesh wall. “Why deny it? You need me, just as I need you. Your ability can help us become perfect, and I can resolve your pain.”

These voices were near and far, illusory and strange. The monster doctor maliciously guided.

It knew about Deep Shadow’s aftereffects. This top 1 admired by countless people was actually just a pitiful creature deeply trapped in his own shadows.

Did it arrange so many abnormalities to block him just to hold up Deep Shadow’s steps? Of course not! It wanted to trigger Deep Shadow’s hallucinations.

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

Others seeing him thought it was top 1’s aloof coldness. Who knew that at that time he couldn’t even see his own position? Vision, hearing, even touch were replaced by hallucinations, acting purely on memory from before falling into hallucinations.

It could hardly wait. Why hadn’t he collapsed yet?

“Can you still hold on? What are you seeing now? That collapsed amusement park? Do you feel the burning flames? They’re searing you. Do you hear the screams and crying? Very familiar, isn’t it? My dear experimental subject, that’s you as a child. Do you still remember those agonizing wails full of pain?

“You can still walk steadily—truly astonishing willpower. But why? Why endure the pain?

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

“You entrusted your young self to people you thought were friends. Now you should recognize their true faces.”

These flesh masses twisted closer. The monster doctor gathered a new mimicry, pressing close to Gu Jiancheng’s face: “Don’t make another wrong choice.”

Look, his expressionless appearance now seemed quite composed. Yet he couldn’t see anything anymore—only hallucinations before his eyes.

The monster doctor moved its most core sac over. It would devour him.

It extended its hand, smiling triumphantly: “Come, give yourself to me…”

Gu Jiancheng gave it a big fist.

Shadow rapidly spread, instantly covering the monster doctor’s core. In just a moment, its new mimicry and core sac had already dissolved in the shadows.

The monster doctor was shocked and furious because the entire nest was collapsing.

Deep Shadow had found its rule weakness!

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

Gu Jiancheng cold-laughed. He endured the disgust of watching this idiot smugly approach, just waiting for it to expose its core part so he could kill this idiot in one strike.

The monster doctor seemed very unwilling to accept its failure. The collapsing Black Nest was still twisting and struggling, occasionally spitting out a few semi-finished abnormalities.

But shadow had already silently enveloped everything. These deranged flesh masses had no chance of escape. Gu Jiancheng patiently waited for it to completely perish. He wouldn’t give it another chance to survive death.

The way these flesh masses twisted and struggled was still so disgusting. They looked much more pleasing when collapsing into ash.

As the Black Nest collapsed to its end, the monster doctor suddenly calmed down.

It hadn’t expected Deep Shadow could devour that Black Nest. He could kill that Black Nest, tear it apart, extinguish its core, but shouldn’t be able to devour it.

Deep Shadow’s aftereffects were clearly so severe they were only a hair’s breadth from collapse. How dare he do something like devouring a Black Nest? Didn’t he fear contamination?

“No wonder… your aftereffects healed.” The monster doctor murmured. “You weren’t trapped in hallucinations just now.”

Gu Jiancheng detected something not quite right.

This Black Nest wasn’t complete. It relied on the Zhulong afterimage to take form.

But the monster doctor’s strength shouldn’t be only this much.

“This isn’t your entire part?”

The monster doctor laughed loudly: “Correct, my dear experimental subject. This isn’t the end yet—far from the end! I look forward to our next meeting!”

Gu Jiancheng’s face darkened.

Damn sick pervert! After fighting for so long, he tells him there’s still a split body. Why is this thing so hard to kill?!

He crushed the still-babbling monster doctor to death. After checking that no trace of this disgusting thing remained nearby, Gu Jiancheng calmed his mood and went on the forum to find Approaching Science.

The monster doctor had split relying on the Zhulong afterimage. Who knew what his split part was doing? He needed to give the Wan Yao Alliance and Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau a heads up.

The trail was broken. He also needed Approaching Science to help him continue searching for leads.

Zhan Yan relayed the message for Deep Shadow and searched for the monster doctor again.

Perhaps because Deep Shadow boss had eliminated part of the monster doctor this time, causing the monster doctor’s information interference to drop, or perhaps because he’d browsed many of the monster doctor’s gossip feed through Deep Shadow boss’s strips this time, increasing his information stability about it—when Zhan Yan searched for the monster doctor this time, it wasn’t all [Loading…] anymore.

He began seeing strips like [Monster doctor produced abnormality “XX.” Abnormality “XX” is wandering in a certain location.]

Zhan Yan browsed gossip feed while waiting for replies from the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau and Wan Yao Alliance, and also asked Deep Shadow boss.

Approaching Science: “Boss, how’s your condition?”

I Just Saved the World!: “I’m fine. Why?”

Zhan Yan didn’t dare fully believe it. This boss was not only boundlessly arrogant but also stubborn.

He flipped through the gossip feed again but found no strips showing Deep Shadow’s condition was poor. Ah, looks like Deep Shadow boss’s mysterious healing-type boss lover was still very capable.

Approaching Science: “Boss, I found some locations of abnormalities the monster doctor previously produced.”

I Just Saved the World!: “Give them to me.”

Tsk, the boss’s style was as concise and efficient as ever.

Zhan Yan organized the abnormality addresses he’d found by distance and sent them over.

Approaching Science: “Boss, I’m quite interested in Zhulong afterimages. Can you tell me about them?”

Gu Jiancheng had already come out from that Zhulong afterimage. He picked a clean spot nearby to sit, bending one leg while tapping the screen.

I Just Saved the World!: “Nothing much to say. The original scenery inside this Zhulong afterimage has been completely destroyed 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 spacetime distortion point. On the distorted interface were remnants of spacetime. Some people couldn’t see anything—only vast whiteness. Some people had related talents and could see residual traces of time and space. These traces would manifest differently depending on individual talents.

Gu Jiancheng had seen them many times when entering those game dungeons.

At first, he’d treated those things as something like cutscene animations. Later he learned they were imprints of a world being constantly restarted.

He’d asked some people. Most people only saw vast whiteness or profound blackness. Some people could see new scenes after exchanging for spacetime-related abilities. Very few, like him, could see from the start. But what each person saw was different.

Some saw brilliant colorful light. Some saw moving lines. Some saw things like an artist’s smeared color blocks.

Gu Jiancheng saw shadow trajectories.

Very wondrous. In pure blackness, there should have been nothing, but he saw those trajectories. Saying “saw” actually wasn’t very accurate. In pure darkness there would be no color—he shouldn’t see anything.

It was a kind of perception. He perceived the trajectories of spacetime lurking in shadow.

Deep Shadow boss felt that thing wasn’t interesting. But Approaching Science was an information-type with vigorous curiosity while lacking frontline experience. It was 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 when there’s a chance.”

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

Zhan Yan was tempted. However, he still gave up. His current situation was very troublesome, with a bunch of disguised bosses around him. If any of them accidentally discovered…

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

Forget it, forget it.

The Wan Yao Alliance side suddenly replied to him. Except the one replying wasn’t Luowang, but his dad.

Chongming: “I’ll go recover that Zhulong afterimage.”

“Is Deep Shadow still there?”

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