APTnovel Chapter 350 The Will of the Subspace
Chapter 350 The Will of the Subspace
Chapter 350 The Will of the Subspace
Yuri's arrival greatly reduced the pressure on Modi.
Even if it's just as a meat shield, it can still help him withstand some of the warp storms.
While Yuri's massive, bulky body was still in front of him and the storm hadn't yet reached him, Modi turned his gun around and stabbed himself.
The spear that ends the unchanging symbolizes the power of change seeping into his body, completely altering his decaying and diseased body until he is restored to its original state.
Yuri also turned around at this moment, abandoning his intention to act as a human shield for him, and quickly retreated to the side, leaning against the side and back of his massive dragon body.
"What do you mean by this?" Modi asked, puzzled. "Are you using me as a human shield?"
"Your physical body is tough and resilient, but I am a pure consciousness; I can't withstand as much as you."
This unified consciousness spoke with absolute certainty, its surface glowing intermittently, as if it had truly suffered a severe blow.
But the next moment, his surface emitted an even stronger light, suppressing the incoming subspace storm and creating a windless zone.
"How did you get stronger again? This rate of improvement is too fast!"
Modi noticed the abnormal rate of increase, and while thrusting out his spiral spear, he also sent out a thread to ask Xiu for advice.
Yuri simply changed his voice to reply: "My existence is expanding every second, more and more humans are merging into the network, this is not my limit yet, help me buy some more time."
"Sure, but you have to do it as soon as possible."
Modi spread his wings, creating waves of blood to shield the storm that was sweeping in again.
If he wasn't mistaken, Yuri should be in a state of constant iteration.
The addition of new human thought has had an impact, causing the sleeve's thinking to be updated every moment.
Without a doubt, he is no longer the Yuri he once was. At the moment of unifying human thought, the existence of Yuri was diluted.
Its personification forms the basis of today's unified consciousness, passing down only its ideas, rather than continuing along the timeline.
This is a worse outcome than other forms of human thought; at least others can retain a certain degree of independence.
However, since this is Yuri's ideal, Modi can't really comment on it.
As long as He doesn't forget His original intention, He will use His power to shatter the two nonsensical things in front of Him.
Although Yuri couldn't go all out yet, just by standing next to Modi, he gave him a bunch of unknown buffs.
At first, Modi didn't understand the reason, but then he realized that he was also a person.
Since it is a person, it can receive the blessing of the collective human consciousness.
For a time, his dragon breath and sword energy were even able to withstand the subspace storms stirred up by the two gods.
"Yuri, can we have more of this buff?" he asked bluntly.
Yuri flatly refused: "No, this is my limit. I must ensure that this will not affect my expansion."
"What a pity. If I had a few more buffs, I might have been able to elbow that scrambled bird and that pile of dung to death."
"That's almost impossible. After all, my limits are what they are. The buffs I provide will never exceed my own power."
Sensing their increased resistance, Zhi Futian glanced at the blue-feathered bird beside him, his meaning clear.
The blue-feathered bird let out a sneer-like cry, its feathers constantly changing shape; one second they were perfectly normal feathers, the next they were tentacles covered in eyeballs.
Amidst His shrill, eerie laughter, the warp storm suddenly intensified... but it wasn't much stronger than before; at least Mordy could still handle it.
"What exactly does this scruffy bird mean by doing this?"
Modi frowned, his entire dragon face contorted in disbelief that the usurper would do something so pointless.
The Heavenly Master is in charge of changes, conspiracies, and even destiny. Even the smallest action could be the beginning of one or more conspiracies.
Even if it fails, it may just be part of the plan.
The best way to deal with this kind of riddle-monger and schemer is to ignore them and just punch them in the back, knocking their beaks crooked.
But Modi doesn't have that ability right now, after all, there's also the corrupt and stagnant one watching him closely.
Yuri, standing to the side and behind, suddenly froze, and the buffs he provided became intermittent, as if the trial period for his cloud storage had expired.
The effect of ff suddenly weakens.
The sudden weakening left Modi feeling empty, and the previously evenly matched battle was pushed to his disadvantage.
He turned his head and looked back. "Yuri, what happened to you?"
Surely he's not just acting?
"The warp storm has seeped into the real world." Yuri's voice was much weaker. "It has blown away many people and opened up many timelines, severely disrupting our connections."
"Is that so?"
Upon hearing this, Modi's expression turned serious.
It turns out that the blue, scruffy bird wasn't targeting Modi at all, but rather Yuri.
Compared to Mordi, whose power originates from himself, Yuri has a fatal weakness—his power comes from a large number of incredibly weak human individuals.
A single natural disaster or a war could cause massive population loss, thereby weakening Yuri, which is equivalent to Alaya.
Is there anything easier than this?
The task of the altered world is quite simple: just create a rift when Yuri expands, allowing the warp storm to enter the mortal realm, which will naturally weaken Yuri.
In retrospect, His plan succeeded and even had an unexpected effect.
Because Yuri was in a period of expansion, it would be difficult for him to have such a rapid improvement opportunity again after being abruptly interrupted.
It is foreseeable that as long as he can defeat the greedy red dragon, the newly formed consciousness integration will be nothing more than a snack. By consuming it, he will advance further.
Perhaps it can even squeeze out of the stagnant and corrupt heavens and occupy the entire eight-pointed star alone.
Unfortunately, the corrupt emperor thought the same thing.
The two gods acted simultaneously, spreading corruption through a warp storm that swept across the world.
The seeds of corruption already buried in the present world have thus sprouted.
A sudden plague swept the globe, and those infected not only did not die, but gradually turned into rotting, bloated walking corpses.
As esoteric sects arose, forbidden knowledge quietly spread in the shadows of the world.
"Mormontes, the situation on the other side is very bad," Yuri warned.
He had a general understanding of the cause and effect of the matter.
Some humans corrupted by the corrupted heavens performed a ritual that opened a crack in the timeline of reality, allowing the corrupted heavens to take advantage of the situation and bring warp storms into the present world.
Yuri showed clear resistance to those who were acting as collaborators.
To Him, these were no longer human; they had all been unilaterally expelled from humanity.
"The current timeline has been invaded, and traces of chaotic corruption have appeared in both those I have already assimilated and those I have not yet been involved in."
Those timelines under Xiu's control are alright; at least they can expend power to extinguish the signs of corruption.
Those timelines that aren't under his surveillance are a different story; who knows when they'll completely corrupt and unleash a massive army of chaos?
"I roughly understand."
Modi responded despite the storm that corroded flesh and blood, and in the process, he gave orders to his Blood God invasion army.
His flesh and blood were sliced off inch by inch, turning into blood mist that blended into the wind, thus gaining partial control of this storm.
The army immediately assembled and set off, passing through the door he had prepared, riding the warp storm, and dispersing into different timelines.
They obeyed Modi's orders to investigate any place showing signs of corruption... and to exterminate it.
For worlds that are not highly corrupted, they will at most cleanse the corrupted areas, which could be a street, a city, or even a small country.
In worlds that are terminally ill, they would resort to more extreme and quicker methods, such as directly launching planetary disintegration bombs.
Admittedly, there are many innocent people in these worlds, but in order to prevent corruption from spreading to other timelines, they have no other choice but to take this approach.
Some might call it cruel, but they call it efficient.
"Yuri, you're too soft-hearted."
While enduring the storm, Modi didn't forget to offer Yuri some advice.
"If you always think about saving more people, in the end you won't be able to save anything. Learn to let go appropriately, that's what you should do."
He could tell that this guy truly loved humanity, so much so that he hesitated to make a decisive move when faced with worlds that were beyond saving.
If it were the original Yuri, he wouldn't need any persuasion; he would know what to do on his own.
But the current Yuri is not the original Yuri; instead, it is a collection of consciousnesses influenced by human thought, and cannot be as rational as the original Yuri.
"They...still have a glimmer of hope."
Yuri's tone was somewhat hesitant, and upon hearing this, Modi knew that this guy was too deeply influenced by the thoughts within humanity.
We need to find a way to guide public opinion, preferably towards xenophobic militarism.
As he secretly pondered this, he objected, "Yes, they do have a sliver of a chance, but have you considered the price we'd have to pay to let them seize that chance?"
"The situation at the front is critical. Every minute of delay could result in the deaths of hundreds or thousands of lives. And how much time do you expect to give them this tiny chance?"
"We could have saved another timeline that wasn't so corrupt, but because of your delay, that timeline became irreversibly corrupt. Do you remember that?"
"The consequence of wanting both is that you get nothing. You should also try to resist the internal human tendency to think and learn to think rationally."
Under the barrage of criticism from the veteran, the newcomer Yuri was speechless and could only silently accept the outcome.
He knew his own problem, but found it difficult to correct himself, which gave Mordy a headache. So he had no choice but to put the idea of guiding thought on the agenda.
Therefore, those Blood God invaders sent abroad all received an order to secretly guide human thought and drive them to abandon their militaristic and xenophobic stance.
The original pro-foreign sentiment is useless. There are no friendly aliens here willing to talk to them, only a group of chaotic demons spreading plagues and conspiracies everywhere.
Modi felt that humanity was doomed sooner or later. A plague had already broken out, so how could anyone still be spreading rumors that it was fake? Who suggested that drinking disinfectant could eliminate the plague?
Doesn't Yuri want to control their thoughts? Oh, this timeline hasn't been integrated into the consciousness unification yet, so it's fine.
It seems the only way is to use his large, visible hands to properly discipline these disobedient fellows.
He's not the Yuri we know now; he won't show mercy even when dealing with his own kind.
"The enemy has already come knocking on our door, and they're still bickering, fighting factionalism, and insisting on political correctness! My soldiers, whip them into spinning tops with those brass-tipped leather belts!"
At Modi's instruction, the first thing the Blood God's invading army would do was often to send a small group to beat up those leaders who had lost their minds.
Only after they finished drawing lots did they begin to form a coalition government, incidentally guiding a shift in ideology.
As time passed, the scales on Modi's body had changed several times, and even his flesh had grown back, but the war in the subspace was still not over.
Even if one side gains the upper hand, it will take an extremely long time for two immortals of similar strength to completely end the war.
Moreover, Modi's side is not weak. Even though they were tricked by the usurper and Yuri was weakened, their size is still huge and enough to deal with the combined forces of the two opponents.
Thanks to the Blood God's invasion and Yuri's intervention, the corruption that had spread into reality was largely quelled at the cost of the destruction of numerous worlds and the death of countless soldiers.
Yuri also unified a larger population, and his size and strength increased in tandem.
Furthermore, with the initial success of Mordi's ideological guidance, He was no longer as indecisive as before, gradually embarking on the path of a war fanatic, and regaining a trace of Yuri's original demeanor.
The pressure began to shift to the other side, and the eccentric ruler could no longer laugh.
He was annoyed to find that he not only had to be wary of Mordi and Yuri, but also had to deal with the harassment of several Chaos deities.
Taking advantage of the warp storm, many Chaos Gods collectively took action against the real world, either interfering with the plans or eliminating their own minions; they were all going against the tide.
What these little things are thinking, does He not know? They simply want to break the current deadlock and clear the path to advancement.
The eight-pointed star position should be occupied by the virtuous; that's what most of them think.
They usually dare not offend them, but once they have the chance, they will pounce like hungry sharks.
"Now that things have come to this, are you still planning to keep secrets?" He looked at Zhi Futian, his tone unfriendly.
"Hiding things?" Zhi Futian looked over, a half-smile on his face. "But I don't trust you."
"You damned, plague-ridden pig!" the blue-feathered bird roared, swinging its scepter with a clanging sound. "We've invested so much power, and now you're going back on your word?"
"You little rascal, you'd better watch your mouth! Otherwise, I wouldn't mind making you change seats."
After a pause, Zhi Futian glanced at the red dragon and said, "I think that dragon wouldn't mind replacing you."
"You dare?!"
"Enough, you and I both know the game is lost."
Zhi Futian said coldly, gradually withdrawing his power.
"It's not just them who are coveting the position of the eight-pointed star; the eight-pointed star is also calling for the rightful octagon. This is the will of the warp. Do you think we can defy it?"
"We've blocked this path for too long. If we continue like this, we'll inevitably face a backlash from the warp. It's time to share the risks... Once that dragon takes over, it might just make the same choice as us."