Evil Emperor Zun

Chapter 2007: Natural Enemies

Shui Wunian also asked at that time, for someone like Ye Yunyan, who has a crucial destiny, once her life trajectory is cut off, how should the resulting historical changes be balanced?

Hua Banxia replied that she could not give an accurate answer to this question, but she could share some of her own views.

If the whole world is likened to an open book, all creatures living here, regardless of their strength, can only play a role in it, and are pushed forward by the long river of time in a one-way manner. But for the Law of Heaven and Earth, and its incarnation Cain, they are the writers and carriers of this book, and have the right to freely read the whole book. In other words, they can exist at any time and any space at the same time.

If a part of history is changed, like deleting a character from a book prematurely, there are two possibilities.

The first is that everything related to this person will be rewritten. For example, someone else will replace Ye Yunyan as the Queen of the Plane, and someone else will replace her to seal Baili Ji. In this case, history has not changed, only the people involved have changed.

Another possibility is that a parallel world was born in which Ye Yunyan died young. Without her support, her plane might have been destroyed earlier. Correspondingly, without her, Baili Ji would not have suffered the wounds of the curse.

In any case, the laws of heaven and earth will balance and correct themselves, and will not lead to global collapse due to local damage. Those who want to destroy order by changing history, or those who do everything possible to prevent others from changing history, in a word, are just too dramatic.

But at the same time, the supreme rules of the Tao will not show mercy to any ordinary life.

It doesn’t matter if history is changed, but it will cause some trouble in correction after all, so if it can be avoided, it is better not to change it, so as not to become a thorn in the eyes of the upper plane. This may be Cain’s original intention to persuade Baili Ji - this is how Hua Banxia understood it.

After hearing this, Shui Wunian, although worried about Ye Yunyan, had to admit that he was not qualified to intervene at the moment. He had to suppress all kinds of chaotic speculations and continue to watch. Fortunately, in the following period of time, everything was still going according to plan. The attacking gnawing tribe was captured and thrown into cages like an assembly line. As the participants cooperated more and more tacitly, the vigilance against the gnawing tribe was unconsciously reduced a lot. Some big guys even said with a smile that it seemed that these monsters were overestimated because of their terrifying appearance.

The change occurred a few days later.

A demon clan member mysteriously summoned all the demons, and the first thing he said was shocking.

In his forbidden area, some of the Gnawers suddenly disappeared!

"What happened? Did they run away?" The other demons became anxious when they heard this.

“No, no,” the demon said, with an incredible expression on his face, making the red lines around his eye sockets more distinct. “Listen, this is really a new discovery. Maybe it’s not a bad thing for us…”

At first, in order to ensure everything was safe, the demons strictly implemented the rule of "one space-binding treasure for one Gnawer Clan member". However, as the number of enemies increased dramatically, the magic weapons became scarce, and the Red-Eyed Demons came up with an idea and planned to lock up several Gnawer Clan members together to save space.

If it were at the beginning of the operation, he would definitely not dare to take this risk, but after observing for a period of time, he found that the deterrent power of the Gnawers was no longer as strong as before, so he set this precedent on his own initiative without discussing it with other companions.

However, out of caution as a powerful being, he still separated a wisp of his divine consciousness to monitor the changes in this "cage" at all times.

When he found that several energy fluctuations disappeared inexplicably, he was really shocked. He thought that he had caused trouble and the enemy had escaped in some way. He searched secretly for a long time but found nothing. What was even more strange was that he could not sense their soul fluctuations at all. There were only two possibilities for this situation. Either they escaped from the mysterious space, or they had completely disappeared from the world!
If the Gnawing Tribe, which is so difficult to kill, can be eliminated quietly...how big a threat will it be to them if such power comes from the enemy?

Unable to find a clue, the Red Eyed Demon Clan came up with a stupid idea. Since this happened after he locked up the Gnawers together, he might as well do the same thing again and observe closely to see what happens.

This was actually a gamble, a gamble that there was a real connection between the two, and a gamble that the situation was controllable. And then, he really discovered a big secret.

Those gnawing creatures are actually killing each other!

"It seems that once these monsters meet, they will attack each other madly until they die. Then the rest of the same tribe will devour their corpses. The few Gnawers that disappeared before probably disappeared without a trace in this way."

Upon hearing this, the demons were shocked and confused, with different expressions on their faces.

The same tribe cannot meet? If what he said is true, doesn't it mean that the real nemesis of the Gnawing Tribe is precisely the Gnawing Tribe itself?

"Wait, isn't this the setting for raising Gu?" The quick-reacting demon suddenly became alert, "The same race devours each other, and the one who survives to the end will become the only king——?"

"No, because I have also considered this point, so I have carefully checked it," the Red Eyed Demon explained, "After the Gnawers devoured their own kind, their own energy fluctuations did not change. In addition, by analyzing their behavior patterns, I think they have formed a state of 'mutual food chain'. For example, when a cat sees a mouse, it will catch it, but in the eyes of the 'mouse', it is the cat, and the 'cat' opposite is the mouse. To put it bluntly, it is fighting against the mirror image all its life."

"Then why did this happen?" asked a female demon with a sharp voice.

“Well,” the Red-Eyed Demon smiled bitterly and shook his head. “Since it is an action driven by instinct, even the Gnawers themselves may not understand it.”

"I only know that seeing is believing." At this time, a demon with bared fangs interrupted the argument gloomily, "What exactly is going on with the Gnawing Tribe? I hope to confirm it with my own eyes."

This was exactly what the demons wanted. They were only cooperating temporarily, and they didn't trust each other much. Besides, those who could get to this point were suspicious by nature, so it was not too much to use any number of verification methods.

Unlike the previous hasty experiments conducted by the Red-Eyed Demons, this time they had ample time to extract a large number of samples and conduct all conceivable tests. The final result was that they indeed verified this law that was enough to shock the entire universe.

The Gnawing Tribe, two members of the same tribe cannot meet each other, otherwise they will kill each other!

In addition, battles between gnawers end quickly because the toxins they release are lethal to their own kind.

But the strange thing is that even if the toxin is extracted and injected into these monsters in the same way, it will not cause the same harm. And even if they have always been carriers of the same type of toxin, for some reason they will not be corroded by their own toxins.

This is difficult to explain. For the time being, we can only assume that when the toxin is incubated in the body of the Gnawers, it is like being stored in a closed petri dish, isolated from the real internal environment. The attack from the same tribe is like using the enemy's spear to attack the enemy's shield, breaking through the surface defense and directly sending the toxin deep into the soft spot. If it is extracted, the toxin will lose its activity after leaving the "petri dish" and no longer have its original lethality.

With such physiological structure, it is no wonder that they can become the "chosen nemesis" of their own kind.

After confirming this, all the bigwigs sighed.

It is true that everything is mutually dependent and mutually exclusive. Such a difficult creature has its own natural enemies after all. But this is too sad. The tribe is the origin of all living things. Although not every tribe is strong enough to provide resources and protection for the tribe members, these powerful people are often very willing to take care of the tribe they came from after they become powerful.

On the one hand, this is to save face for themselves, and on the other hand, the higher the achievements of a strong person, the fewer people can stand shoulder to shoulder with him. The long loneliness makes them particularly eager to have a sense of belonging. They hope that their bloodline inheritance can continue like an endless fire. Therefore, supporting the "same root" tribe becomes the first choice.

The Gnawers were naturally deprived of this right. They were originally the least favored creatures in the universe. They should have helped each other, but they could only scatter across the world. However, their intelligence was extremely low, and perhaps they had not even realized their own life before they had already met their own death.

After that some more testing was done.

They discovered that the Gnawers reproduced by splitting, and the Red-Eyed Demons soon had an idea. Considering that the Gnawers that had just split off represented their infancy, they should still be very weak at this stage. If they now took them in as soul slaves, when they grew up, they would still have to recognize them as their masters and be used by them. Wouldn't that mean they would have an invincible reserve army?

Of course, this is also risky. In the process of establishing a master-servant contract, both parties need to open their souls completely. It would be fine if one party completely crushes the other, but if it can't hold back, it will be counterattacked. They don't know whether the Gnawing Clan is good at soul power. Moreover, whether there will be other hidden dangers in establishing a deep connection with such a strange thing is currently unknown.

Therefore, after the Red Eye Demon Clan made the suggestion, they also hesitated for a long time. His strength was not outstanding among all the collaborators, which was also because he was mediocre in talent and extremely cherished his life. In the past, when exploring secret realms, he always stopped immediately when there was a slight risk; when encountering a strong person being besieged, he also preferred to stay in the back and pick up leaks. In a word, as long as it was not a sure opportunity, he basically dared not touch it.

Such cautiousness did allow him to live longer than his peers, but compared to those winners who gambled their lives time and time again, his growth was obviously insufficient.

He proposed the soul slave, hoping that other demons would try first, but no one responded, and he was unwilling to give up. For some reason, he always had a strong premonition that if he missed this opportunity, he would regret it. Driven by inexplicable anxiety, he finally decided to grit his teeth and give it a try!
This gamble was unexpectedly successful.

Under the Gnawers' absolute defense of mud, who could have expected that their souls would be as fragile as paper.

When the Red-Eyed Demon carefully controlled his soul power to test forward, and was even prepared for a protracted war, ready to retreat at any time if the situation turned bad, he was so nervous that his forehead was covered with sweat - then, he was caught off guard and welcomed a smooth road in the spiritual space.

Too easy! Too unbelievable! His telekinesis encountered almost no hindrance during the invasion. In an instant, it penetrated straight into the world, rushing thousands of miles, like a surging ocean, breaking through the clouds, sweeping away all the wasteland, and hovering above the tiny and ugly soul of the Gnawing Clan, which was like sand and gravel, with an unmatched momentum.

He was only one step away from covering the soul imprint and completing the enslavement, but this made him suspect that there was something fishy going on. His mental power circled in the same place again and again, and he did not dare to descend.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?" In the eyes of other demons, his soul fluctuations seemed to have suddenly stagnated, which inevitably made them think that his soul had been taken away.

“…No.” The Red-Eyed Demon finally got rid of his initial confusion. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he didn’t want to lose face, so he just ignored everything. His soul power transformed into a totem flashing with an eerie red light within his sea of ​​consciousness, which shot out and completely merged with the soul of the Gnawing Clan.

After being taken in as soul slaves, under the orders of their masters, the Gnawing Tribe has been able to freely carry out attacks and strikes against their own tribe. The Red Eye Demon Tribe even specially found their own subordinates to serve as sparring partners. Strangely enough, when he fully mobilized his combat consciousness, he could use the power of his soul to directly control the limbs of the Gnawing Tribe, as if his "soul had penetrated" into this body. And the longer this can be maintained, the stronger this feeling of being able to control one's own arm and fingers and becoming one with the other becomes.

The demons thought that this might be because the Gnawers were very low in intelligence, and conquering their souls was equivalent to replacing their instincts with their own will. In any case, with their own endless power, coupled with the skilled fighting skills given by their masters, they were even more powerful. With this preparation, it seemed that the plan of driving the tiger to devour the wolf was more feasible.

Since it was a killing weapon that could be tamed, other demons would naturally not allow the Red Eye Demons to monopolize it. If the opponent had it, they would be missing a trump card if they did not have it. Therefore, most of the demons who were watching at the scene participated in this sudden wave of recognition of the master.

There were also demons who tried to recognize adult Gnawers as their masters. According to their description, after their soul power entered, it was like being trapped in a dark and deep swamp. Although they did not suffer obvious attacks, after being immersed in it for a long time, they could feel their power being devoured bit by bit and filling up the bottomless turbidity.

When he realized that something was wrong, he immediately tried to withdraw his consciousness, but the suction from all directions still bound him. He still felt scared when he recalled the feeling of being swallowed by the giant beast. If he delayed for a while longer, he would probably be like a piece of melted taffy and completely melted in it.

This was soon verified by other demons, which made the young Gnawers look more promising. Some of those who were still on the sidelines also began to join in.

……

Fanatical group behavior is often a sign of disaster.

It was Ye Yunyan who initially proposed it, but now she is becoming more and more uneasy, always wondering if she has made some terrible mistake.

As a link between players and demons, Ye Yunyan often tells her companions about her experiences with Baili Ji so that they can also understand the latest developments. And this time, she also wants to seriously ask Mo Feng for his opinion. He is the future Lord of Hell, and his understanding of various strange stories and secrets of the universe sea may be second only to Cain.

"How is it?" Seeing that Mo Feng still looked lazy after listening, Ye Yunyan couldn't help but ask with concern, "What do you think of this matter?"

"Not reliable." Mo Feng said succinctly. He crossed his legs, glanced at the players around him who also had serious expressions, and continued in a clear tone, "Just think so. If there really is a good thing that falls from the sky, so many people who are more capable than you didn't pick it up, why is it your turn?"

Alice and Sasaki Ike also looked at each other and asked worriedly: "Then can we do anything to stop them?"

If the demons were to behave recklessly and cause trouble, innocent players like them would certainly be affected. Moreover, Mo Feng and Black Dragon had a good relationship during this period, and she thought he would care about him more.

Mo Feng said with a smile: "Why should I stop them? If I stop them, will they call me dad?"

Alice was speechless, and Mo Feng finally became serious, although he did not hide the contempt in his tone.

"You can't change other people's perceptions. If you try to persuade someone not to do something that they have made after careful consideration, isn't that the same as telling them that they are stupid? Even for the sake of their dignity, they won't listen to you, and they may even think that you just can't stand to see them do well."

"So I never try to persuade anyone. I like to be stupid and casual. If anyone is stupid enough to cause trouble for me, I will just kill him."

The sudden murderous intent made everyone around him shudder. Those who had their own thoughts also wisely swallowed their unspoken questions.

"Don't covet pie that falls from the sky", this topic has also caused a lot of discussion on the Internet. Some people say that ordinary people can live a good life as long as they keep this in mind.

In this world, most people are actually ordinary people, and they are often unwilling to accept that they are ordinary people.

Chu Tianyao is one of them.