absurd deduction game.

Inside the white house.

The moment Yu Xing uttered those mocking words, as if finally deciding to stop talking to her prey, the blood-red moon that had been hovering in Emily's eyes and reflected in the room through the window suddenly burst forth with unprecedented light!
It was no longer a simple irradiation, but rather like a viscous waterfall of blood, radiating a cold glow, pouring down on Yu Xing from the ceiling, from the walls, and from every corner of the void!
The light was so intense it was almost liquid, completely engulfing Yu Xing, eerie yet beautiful, like a grand sacrifice designed specifically for destruction.

However, in the center of this blood-red torrent, the pitch-black cursed branches, like the most resilient reefs, erupted with an even deeper darkness.

Countless twisted branches, covered with patterns of desolation, danced wildly from behind Yu Xing, forming an impenetrable barrier.

The power of the curse materialized into a solid black mist, frantically eroding and annihilating each other with the pouring crimson moonlight!
Red and black, vastness and deathly silence—two diametrically opposed yet equally terrifying forces clashed fiercely in this confined space, producing a teeth-grinding "sizzling" sound. The light flickered erratically, and for a moment, they appeared to be evenly matched.

Yu Xing stood in the very center of countless wildly dancing branches, the wind whipping up the hem of his clothes and strands of his hair, but his figure was as steady as a rock, his eyes radiating a cold light like shattered stars, so deep that they seemed to connect to an endless abyss.

At this moment, he had completely shed his human aura and was more like a colossal tree rooted in eternal darkness and nothingness, bearing the annihilation and curse within himself, facing the rolling, roaring, blood-red celestial body in the sky that exuded endless madness and knowledge!
However, the horror of Cthulhu-like indescribable pollution lies not only in the distortion of the mind, but also in the most fundamental alteration of the material form.

The light of the blood moon contained a power beyond reason, and after a brief stalemate, it began to directly affect Yu Xing's "branch" itself!
A terrifying change began to occur on the surfaces of those jet-black branches that were resisting the red light—

First, cold, hard protrusions, like lunar craters, appeared, feeling like frozen rocks to the touch, radiating an extreme chill that could freeze the soul.

Immediately afterwards, between these protrusions, the bark of the branches writhed like melting wax, and eyes suddenly opened!

These eyes vary in size, but their shapes are strikingly similar—no eyelashes, no eyelids, only huge, bloodshot whites and pupils that spin wildly in the center, flashing with a thirst for knowledge and fanaticism!

They are like the eyes of scholars obsessed with the mysteries of the starry sky, filled with a yearning for the unknown, yet permeated with utter madness!
Thousands upon thousands of such eyes densely covered Yu Xing's branches, all "looking" in all directions, at the blood moon, and at Yu Xing herself, who was protected in the center by the branches. They seemed to be observing, recording, and trying to understand everything that was beyond human comprehension.

These eyes themselves are a direct distortion and assimilation of Yu Xing's power form by the Blood Moon's pollution!
Knowledge...Inspiration...Stars...

[Mastermind...look up at the stars...]

Yu Xingneng could clearly feel a cold and massive flow of knowledge trying to forcefully enter his consciousness through these newly formed "eyes." It was not human knowledge, but a crazy truth about the movement of stars, the scale of the universe, and the overlapping of dimensions, enough to burst any mortal brain in an instant.

However, the faint blue light in Yu Xing's eyes only flickered slightly.

As a "tree," his consciousness structure is fundamentally different from that of humans. These frenzied torrents of knowledge are more like...nutrients to him?
Or rather, it is a special substance that needs to be filtered and transformed by the "root system".

Instead of resisting, he proactively released a sliver of his mental barrier, as if spreading his roots to begin drawing upon this poisonous "fountain of knowledge" from the stars.

The eyes on the branches, spinning wildly, seemed to be rotating even faster, but the information they observed was being rapidly broken down and transformed by a deeper, more pervasive curse...

The anchor points of "Emily," "Rail," and the celestial bodies, which were almost torn apart by unknown substances, finally began to notice something amiss.

It spoke through Emily's mouth, uttering a broken, murmured question: "What...are you?"

Yu Xing also needs to pay close attention to dealing with excessive nutrients.

His mind was filled with maddening pollution, and to be honest, he found it difficult to concentrate on answering such a question. His tongue felt slightly numb, as if it had been filled with a sense of complete satisfaction. To confront a monster related to an ancient god head-on was a risky move for anyone. Although he could absorb nutrients, being too reckless would result in the tree trunk being torn apart by the nutrients.

But Yu Xing still has a trump card up his sleeve.

So he smiled, looked directly at the red moon, and amidst the pollution pouring down, the branches that had been surrounding him slowly spread outwards, revealing his body clad in a trench coat.

"Never mind who I am, you definitely want this body, right?"

"You've made quite a fuss to corrupt me. The people from the Church of the Righteous God should be on their way. Is this... a desperate gamble?"

"Before you are discovered by the Harvest Mother Goddess, you only have one path to take: abandon Emily's body and merge with me. If you fail, this anchor point you have painstakingly left on the ground will be uprooted."

The moonlight shone brightly, as if confirming his statement.

Yu Xing slowly raised his arms, as if welcoming the red moon's embrace. He tilted his face slightly up, and the mole at the corner of his eye, which seemed to have been polluted, now emitted an eerie red light.

"Come on, give it your all. If this stalemate continues, you'll be the one who suffers."

Emily's body made a cracking sound.

The human body is inherently unable to withstand such power, and the more the red moon shone, the faster the old woman's body disintegrated.

Finally, cracks appeared on her skin, and what flowed from the cracks was not blood, but the glowing moonlight.

Kaka...

She cracked.

The monster's human skin disguise was completely destroyed, and the rolling celestial body finally pressed down on Yu Xing without reservation. The concept of stars rushed into Yu Xing's eyes, and he wanted to start from the two eyeballs that were closest to the celestial body to transform this body into a new anchor point.

It did its best, and the black mist formed by the power of the curse retreated somewhat helplessly. Yu Xing did not deliberately manipulate them to resist at all, but simply withdrew his hand and unbuttoned his coat.

He was wearing a white shirt underneath.

In the instant that this abstract and powerful monster collided with him, Yu Xing pulled the hem of his shirt out of his waistband and up, revealing the flowing lines on his abdomen.

—The highest-level mark that [He] imprinted on him in Nanshui Town.

His smile widened: "Look, what's this?" (End of Chapter)