How did I become the Lord of Evil Gods?

Chapter 372 Where the dream begins
The scene here gave Yun Mu a sense of déjà vu. She recalled it briefly and soon found the reason.

Plague City
The last time I entered the game copy, the scene there was very similar to this one.

The architectural styles on both sides of the street are consistent. If nothing unexpected happens, this should be a city in the Heling Empire.

So, was the nameless shadow attracted here by the ghosts lingering here?

This time, Yang Ling and the evil wolf were not around. Yun Mu walked along the street and soon saw rotten and smelly corpses lying on the roadside and on the walls.

The gray rats hid in the shadows, their rotting corpses infested with maggots and swarming with flies.

Yun Mu avoided the pool of indecipherable liquid on the ground and continued moving forward.

In the history of the Earth, the Black Death was gradually spread by rats carried by returning ships, and in the Helling Empire
Those rats are the followers of the God of Plague, although at this point in time, the God of Plague has probably not yet been born.

Ok?
A giant rat emerged from the shadows and came in front of Yun Mu.

"Squeak!"

The giant rat let out a soft cry, then ran towards an alley without looking back.

Seeing this, Yun Mu hurriedly followed. She had a hunch that the mouse was leading the way for her.

Passing through the dark alley, turning at a narrow old intersection, the giant rat disappeared, replaced by the familiar black fog and the...
That can no longer be called a girl.

When she approached the black fog and saw the chaotic figure, which looked like it was stitched together by the craziest wizard, she was speechless for a moment.

The crazy act of devouring souls eventually backfired on the girl. The complicated soul could no longer maintain a stable form and could only continue to twist in chaos.

A large amount of fragmented, incoherent, and even inhuman memories are mixed in the black fog.

After Yun Mu absorbed the memories in the black fog, he was stunned for a long time.

This is all thanks to the fact that she has a stable set of memories of her own, which allows her to clearly know who she is.

And those extra memories were just what she absorbed from others.

But it was obvious that all the memories of the ghost in front of him came from those devoured soul fragments.

Although there was no way to truly empathize with the other person, just by imagining it, Yun Mu could understand how bad the other person's condition was.

[You have received the memory of [Unknown Ghost lv140 (Legendary)], your willpower +5.]
The message prompt on the game panel popped up again. I always feel that the attribute of will seems to have been added a little too much recently.

But this is not a bad thing. After all, willpower is something that the more you have, the better.

"■■■?"

【You are here? 】

After the black fog dissipated, the nameless shadow regained consciousness.

The sound of her voice was as if countless people were speaking at the same time, sounding like some kind of celestial chorus.

The languages ​​are also varied, including Elvish, Dragon Language, the language of the Ancient North Continent, the language of the Ancient Huling Empire, and even the roars of humanoid creatures such as murlocs and goblins.

However, under the influence of the title, Yun Mu could still clearly recognize the thoughts contained in the other party's words.

"■■■■■"

[I have forgotten how long it has been, and my memories have been fading, but the time I spent with you will never be erased. ]

“■■.”

[I have a feeling that the day when I can meet you will come again. ]

“■■■■.”

[I'm glad to meet you in the last moments. ]

"Wait, the last time?" The previous words were fine. Although there were some doubts, Yun Mu could understand them.

But what does the last sentence "the last time" mean?

Before I had time to think about it, the surrounding scene became blurry again.

"Wait, wait a minute!"

Yun Mu wanted to ask more clearly, but what was about to happen obviously would not stop because of her thoughts.

What's more, she couldn't speak at this moment.

“■■■■.”

The nameless shadow seemed to have anticipated her departure. As his figure gradually dissipated, he waved at her.

【See you again if we are destined to.】

There was no time to say anything. When Yun Mu came to his senses again, the surrounding scene had changed again.

"boom!!"

A hot gust of air rushed towards her and a shell exploded in front of her.

In a blink of an eye, a broken arm spun and fell to the ground at her feet.

After going around in circles, she seemed to have come to a battlefield again.

But unlike before, the era seems to have developed from cold weapons to hot weapons.

She was now in a makeshift trench, and the unlucky guy who had just been killed in the explosion.
“Ahhhhhh, I can’t take it anymore!”

Inside the trench, a soldier couldn't stand the tremendous pressure and rushed out of the trench regardless of the artillery shells outside.

His teammates were unable to catch him in time.

"boom!"

The dented helmet on the soldier's head was blown into the sky by the impact and then fell next to Yun Mu.

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She heard the soldier's shout just now, which was the familiar Frost Kingdom language.

As far as I can remember, the last war involving hot weapons that took place in the Frost Kingdom was a border conflict with the Dwarf Empire fifty years ago!
According to records in history books, the two sides were deadlocked on the border for about five years, during which time the territorial boundary lines continued to change amid the struggle.

"boom!!"

Another shell landed near the trench, and wet mud splashed onto her face, making Yun Mu realize that she was now in a physical state as well.

But the soldiers around her didn't seem to notice her at all.

"Help, help!"

Suddenly, a young man's cry for help was heard outside the trench, which made Yun Mu a little confused.

With all this bombardment going on, is there anyone who can survive outside the trenches?
Without hesitation, she jumped out of the trench, and the scene that came into her eyes was...
"Uh-huh"

A pitch-black arrow pierced the young man's chest, and opposite him, a petite figure was wrapped in the familiar black mist, and that figure had just put down the longbow in his hand.

Wait, what does the other person look like?

Seeing through the black fog, Yun Mu saw another self! ?

The young man whose chest was pierced by an arrow turned into soul fragments and was absorbed by another self. After taking away the young man's soul, the other self held a longbow, turned around and left without even looking at her. No wonder she could hear the young man's voice despite the constant bombardment outside. It seemed that the other party had died long ago, and it was just his soul that was asking for help. No, now was not the time to think about this.

Coming back to his senses, Yun Mu hurriedly caught up with the black fog and reached out to touch the shoulder of his other self.

Her strength is not restricted in this space, so even if shells keep falling from the sky around her, it will not affect her.

After touching the shoulder of her other self, the familiar scene came to her again, and the black fog shrouding the surrounding area all poured into her body.

"Ah?"

The imagined chaos did not occur. Yun Mu, who had been prepared for the shock of memory, was surprised to find that not a single image emerged in his mind.

What's happening here?
[You received the memory of [Unknown Ghost lv160 (Epic)].]
Yun Mu was confused and became even more bewildered when he heard the message prompt from the game panel.

Memory, where did the memory come from? Why didn’t she feel it?

Also, why is it epic now?

Isn’t it said that the earliest epic can be traced back to Fenyego two thousand years ago?
Doesn’t ghost count?

Whoops, just kidding.

It’s just that the earliest epic recorded in history can be traced back to Fenyego, and the ghost in front of us is obviously of an unknown type.

But is it really true that no one knows?

The soul of the soldier who had gone mad and escaped from the trench separated from his body. When he saw the figure of the nameless ghost holding a pitch-black longbow, he immediately retreated with horror on his face.

"The girl holding a jet-black longbow that only dying people can see. You, you are..."

Recalling the legend circulating in his hometown, the soldier muttered subconsciously to himself.

"No, no, no no no no!" The soldier realized something and quickly turned around, got up from the ground and tried to escape.

But how could a mortal's soul escape the epic hunt? The next second, the nameless ghost pulled the bowstring, and the black arrow flew out, instantly piercing the soldier's heart.

After absorbing the soldier's soul, the nameless ghost with Yun Mu's appearance turned and looked at her.

"Ah, ah" the nameless ghost tried hard to open his mouth, but not a single word came out.

Now, originally she was the only one who couldn't speak, but now both of them are unable to speak.

Yun Mu and the nameless ghost stared at each other. There was nothing she could do but think about the current situation.

Judging from the other party's behavior, the nameless ghost most likely knew her, but she couldn't figure out the specific reason.

Maybe it has something to do with the special characteristics of time travelers?
She pondered in her mind.

Since the nameless ghost knows her, why can't she speak?
Recalling the way the nameless ghost tried to speak, Yun Mu gradually had some guesses in his mind.

Could it be that I have forgotten how to speak?

Yes, that's right. Everyone who becomes a ghost after death will gradually lose their memory and become crazy, thinking back to what the other party said when they met last time, the last time.

And the look of the nameless ghost the last time we met.
Yun Mu had a vague guess in his mind.

Could it be that the nameless ghost before her no longer had any memories except those related to her?
This also seems to explain why the nameless ghost in front of her changed into her appearance.

but why?
Even if memories are constantly fading, when the two met previously, there was no sign that the other person's memory had completely disappeared, right?
Instead, because of too many memories, he looked like a stitched body.

Except at the speed at which memory fades!

A flash of inspiration came to Yun Mu’s mind.

Could it be that the more souls a ghost devours, the faster it loses its memory?

The faster the memory is lost, the more it wants to devour other souls, but the more souls it devours, the faster the memory fades!

hiss.

What kind of vicious cycle is this?
It can be expected that as the number of souls devoured by the ghost increases, its memory will be lost faster, and it will crave souls more frantically.

But people don’t die every day. What will the ghosts do when they can’t find their souls?
The answer is obvious.

That's killing a living person!
No wonder the hunters and gods of death in the real world hunt souls all day long. If the souls are allowed to fight indiscriminately, trouble will probably arise soon.

Fortunately, souls whose strength does not reach a certain level are not able to influence the real world.

Yun Mu guessed that even without the God of Hunting and Death, most souls would eventually dissipate due to the loss of memory.

Well, she guessed that the memory would disappear once it was completely gone. Otherwise, even if the memory was cleared, the ghosts would still exist in the world, which was obviously unreasonable.

If that were the case, ghosts would have already filled up the world.

Then why doesn't the nameless ghost disappear now, and why doesn't it attack the living people?

The answer is already written on paper.

That is, in the nameless ghost's mind, all the memories related to her will not disappear due to the influence of time!
That’s right, it’s all connected!

Yun Mu cheered and celebrated excitedly in her mind. She thought she had thought everything through.

The next moment, the surrounding scene became blurry again.

Yun Mu, who was already familiar with this, knew that she would soon be transferred to another scene, and then she would see a completely different nameless ghost.

She had a feeling this would be the last transfer.

"Rumble"

The deafening sound of the machine woke Yun Mu up.

As night falls, the energy tower standing in the center of the city begins to operate.

The supercritical boiler emits a low roar, and gray-black high-temperature exhaust gas is discharged from above the energy tower.

The strong flammable liquid from the underground world, made by goblin craftsmen, releases energy in the boiler that far exceeds that of burning coal, and continuously pumps water deep into the ground through giant water pumps.

After complex thermal energy conversion, the ultra-high temperature steam extracted from the underground passes through the thermal energy shell of the energy tower, along the steam pipelines throughout the city, and is input into steam hubs to heat the city streets.

As the city's temperature rises, the snow that accumulates on the streets during the day melts.

Wait, does this look familiar?
Yun Mu suddenly woke up, looked up, and saw the familiar gray-black cylindrical mechanical creature in the center of the city, continuously emitting exhaust gas into the air.

This familiar scene, this familiar street, could it be...
She turned around and saw a familiar yet unfamiliar figure leaning against an unattended corner.

It was a young girl with black hair, about fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing an old leather coat and a pair of roughly made coarse cloth trousers that were soaked by the melted snow.

She just lay there quietly, without any sign of life in her.

At the same time, the familiar black fog emerged from the depths of the alley, and behind the black fog, an unknown ghost holding a longbow and walking to the corpse with lifeless eyes.

Yes, corpses.

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The nameless ghost locked his sights on Yun Mu!

(End of this chapter)