Me! Cleaner!.

Chapter 1162 It's either you or me who surpasses you.

"It shouldn't be here."

After sensing its own unchanging truth, the thrush decisively shook its head and said:
"Although this place gives me a strong sense of danger, as if I might be swallowed up by something at any moment, this feeling is not quite the same as the feeling brought by the God of Cookery. It's as if something is missing."

Something's missing?

Upon hearing this, the Celestial Cicada and the Crimson King exchanged a glance, and then the Crimson King asked further:

"What's missing?"

"Something's missing... a sense of powerlessness? It's that feeling of having nowhere to run, nowhere to hide."

Recalling the overwhelming sense of crisis he felt when [Disaster Avoidance] was triggered in the past, the thrush shuddered and explained with fear in its eyes:

"It's like you're running on a railway track that can only go forward, but there's a train chasing you that keeps accelerating."

Even though you seem to be running faster than that train, since there's only one track, no matter how fast you run, you can only temporarily create distance. It will soon catch up again, and then, just a step behind you, it will rumble and rumble ever closer… oh wait, no!

To the astonishment of Wanwu Tianchan and the other, the thrush trembled violently as if it had been electrocuted, then turned and ran without hesitation. In the blink of an eye, it had already escaped to an unknown distance and was about to rush out of the Dream Abyss.

Why is he making this mistake again?

The five eyes opened and closed briefly. After forcibly restraining the thrush that was trying to escape, the All-Knowing Cicada raised its hand and grabbed the immobilized thrush back. After examining the mark deep in his soul, it frowned and shook its head at the Crimson King.

Upon noticing the movements of the All-Seeing Cicada, the Crimson King was slightly taken aback, and then frowned.

Still not working?
No.

The Heavenly Cicada did not speak, but opened one of its five eyes, conveying its meaning directly through eye contact.

The situation remained the same as before. The source of courage that the Father had bestowed upon the raven hadn't even had a chance to take effect before it was shattered by the excessive fear brought on by the Calamity Avoidance, and it had no effect on stabilizing his emotions at all.

Moreover, after receiving the baptism presided over by the [Father], the effect of the raven's [Disaster Avoidance] was greatly enhanced, allowing him to be immune to any harm from the God of Food, but it also intensified his fear of the God of Food.

Even thinking about the God of Food for a little while now makes him so terrified he can't control himself. If the God of Food were to actually appear in front of him, the thrush would probably be thrown horizontally more than ten planes away, the kind of movement we couldn't stop.

That's troublesome...

After examining the thrush, the Crimson King found that, as the Celestial Cicada had described, the thrush possessed a strange, slippery quality, as if it might detach from the current plane at any moment. He pondered for a moment before proposing:

“Let’s try a different approach… Crow, the Dream Valley is roughly the shape of a walnut, with sixty main trunks and over seven hundred constantly emerging and disappearing branching gullies. You don’t need to tell us where the God of Food will go, just tell us where the safest place is, okay?”

"I...I'll give it a try..."

Hearing that the mission had changed from finding the God of Food to finding safety, the thrush felt much better. After barely suppressing the fear that was growing in his heart, he followed the guidance of [Disaster Avoidance] and hesitantly pointed in a certain direction.

"It seems safer over there, my gut feeling tells me... wait?"

"what happened?"

Lifting up the thrush, which couldn't move a muscle except its beak, and speeding wildly in the opposite direction of "safety," the All-Encompassing Cicada laughed:

"Tell me, what did your intuition tell you?" "..."

My gut feeling tells me that you two in the internet cafe are trying to lead me into the God of Cookery's mouth!
"Wait! No! Not there!"

After pleading a few times, seeing that the Celestial Cicada and the Crimson Overlord were rushing headlong in the most dangerous direction without saying a word, the raven could no longer care about respecting the two senior pillar gods and screamed in exasperation:
"You two damned..."

“We two are following the instructions of the Father to help you become the first pillar god to transcend.”

After glancing at the thrush with a hint of jealousy, the All-Encompassing Cicada smiled and said:

"You are the one who is closest to transcendence of all of Father's children."

If we can use your truth to find the location where the God of Food will arrive in the future, and then let him drown forever in the dreamscape of the Abyss of Dreams like those 'floating corpses' below, then your [Calamity Avoidance] will lose its meaning and will be equivalent to being completed...

"Crow, don't you want to see for yourself what the world above the Pillar Gods is really like?"

"..."

"Don't worry, we didn't mean to force you."

After glancing at the silent raven, the Crimson King said calmly:
"If we want to find the future whereabouts of the God of Cookery, we can't do without your guidance. If you don't want to meet the God of Cookery, you can simply not tell us the truth and point us in any direction to fool us. After all, we don't have the [Disaster Avoidance] ability to judge whether it's true or false."

But you should know that since you have become the strongest of the four pillar gods, and have even touched the threshold of transcendence, it proves that the God of Food has also gained incredibly terrifying growth after obtaining the 'legacy' of the Abyss Realm.

And we, the pillar gods who aspire to transcendence, have a relationship of mutual inefficiency with the 'other half' we lack. If you ultimately fail to transcend, then it might be the God of Food who does achieve transcendence, and at that time…”

By then, even if I possess the truth of "avoiding calamities," I may not be able to avoid the God of Food.

Although the Crimson King didn't finish his sentence, the meaning wasn't hard to guess. And imagining the scene where even [Disaster Avoidance] was ineffective, and someone was grinning as they walked towards him, the source of courage that had been veiled by fear in the Crow's heart finally broke through the barrier and radiated…

A half-dead radiance.

"Go...go that way...go that way..."

The arm, trembling like it had Parkinson's, was slightly raised, and after a very brief, cursory nod in a certain direction, the deathly pale-faced thrush stammered:

"I was afraid you were lying to me. I wasn't asking where it was safe, but rather where the God of Cookery was closest. So I just pointed in a less safe direction. If you want to find the God of Cookery, you'll have to run in the other direction..."

"..."

Damn it, I almost got fooled by an idiot!
Unexpectedly, the thrush had such a ulterior motive. The two pillar gods who had gone astray were embarrassed and quickly changed to the correct direction.

However, just as they broke through the edge of this Dreamy Abyss and prepared to dive deeper, the Dreamy Abyss, which they had previously ignored, suddenly began to flow.

Under the watchful eyes of the three pillar gods, the silhouettes of floating corpses that stretched all the way to the end of the "galaxy" below opened their eyes and looked up in unison.

"Insect number 1?"

(End of this chapter)