Eternal Night.

Chapter 923 The Initial Truth!

(PS: It's a bit late, I didn't have any drafts saved, it's all written on the spot.)
Wu Pifu watched all of this happen, but he was powerless to do anything about it.

His current state is quite peculiar. His essence is suppressed deep within the sea of ​​his spiritual consciousness. The fish and butterflies are eyeing him covetously, but with the protection of the Bodhi Fruit, they are temporarily helpless against him. However, the Bodhi Fruit is like a tree without roots or water without a source, and it is constantly being consumed. Meanwhile, his essence has condensed into a human form, holding a supernatural crystal that is only the size of a thumb in his hand. His companions and small animals are all contained within it, but he doesn't know their current situation.

As for the outside world, although he doesn't know where this physical body came from, and why he has some vague memories that he can perceive, he can see, hear, and touch it, but he can't control this physical body. He even needs someone to lead him to walk, otherwise he can only stand still and not move.

Seeing a group of inhuman beings dressed, acting, and shouting strangely, Wu Pifu was very anxious, but he couldn't control his body.

Then they saw this group of about thirty people who seemed to be a hybrid of cyberpunk, scavengers, and bikers, yelling and shouting as they charged towards them. Some of them, who had the most metal plates on their bodies, were riding in dilapidated vehicles that looked like motorcycles but without handlebars, making them look more high-tech. However, combined with their shabby appearance, they looked exactly like the scoundrels from an old post-apocalyptic fighting comic that Wu Pifu had once read.

The frail Qing dragged Wu Pifu's body forward, but the group finally caught up with them. They weren't using any guns or even crossbows, but rather simple slings made of cloth or leather. A fist-sized stone hit Qing's thigh, and he stumbled and rolled away, leaving Wu Pifu's body standing motionless.

Then a barrage of stones and metal fragments rained down on Wu Pifu's body, causing his facial expression to twitch. He thought he was going to be crushed to death, but what happened next left him stunned.

The sound of thuds echoed as all the bullets that struck his body made a crisp sound. Not only did they not break his skin, but they also failed to scratch his tattered beggar clothes.

This is not martial arts, not traditional Chinese martial arts, not internal energy, not any kind of extraordinary protective power; this is actually... a commoner's title??

This physical body actually has a title protection?
Wu Pifu was extremely surprised.

This strange phenomenon quickly attracted the attention of the biker gangs, but they didn't think of anything supernatural. After a few seconds of stunned silence, one of the biker gangs in the vehicle shouted excitedly, "A force field generator!? There's still an intact force field generator!? Mine, mine!"

The biker immediately revved his vehicle and charged forward, as did the others. Even upon hearing the words "force field generator," the other bikers' eyes lit up. Those without vehicles, clearly unable to keep up, all mimicked the same action…

They picked up their slings and hurled them at several vehicles.

That's right, their first choice was to betray their own people. Or rather, these biker gangs with vehicles were neither their own people nor their leaders; they were simply banding together.

With a series of crashes, except for one vehicle that dodged the attack from behind at an angle, all the other vehicles rolled to the ground. The two most unlucky bikers landed headfirst on the ground, scraping against it before stiffening and remaining motionless.

The remaining bikers completely ignored everything else. After smashing all the vehicles, they charged towards Wu Pifu even more frantically, but they didn't notice one thing...

"Huh? Uh-huh?"

Wu Pifu twisted his neck.

The body twists and turns.

As the two bikers fell to their deaths, the impact of the fish and butterfly on the Bodhi fruit at his core momentally paused slightly. It was very faint, but it was real. And this slight pause was enough for him to have some control over his physical body. If we were to describe it as a percentage, his control over his body would be about one percent... By the way, one hundred percent refers to his normal state, that is, his peak state in martial arts. An ordinary person's control over their body is about five percent, and his current control over his body is much weaker than that of an ordinary person.

But this is already very good. You have to know that he regained control of his physical body under the constraints of two true-position beings. Although his control over his physical body is poor and not enough for him to use any exquisite national martial arts system or martial arts, he is not limited to this.

Wu Pifu simply turned his head and glared at the group of bikers. In an instant, all of them turned white-eyed and collapsed to the ground. Especially since they were still running, they rolled around repeatedly after collapsing to the ground. Moreover, they were not only unconscious, but their internal organs were ruptured from the shock. Within seconds, the entire group of bikers was dead.

Ordinary Conqueror's Haki is enough to stun weak superhumans, but the Conqueror's Haki emitted by someone of Wu Pifu's strength could truly kill or scare a person to death, as long as he doesn't hold back.

With the deaths of these dozens of bikers, Wu Pifu was surprised to find that his control over his physical body had increased to about three percent.

"...Death? Or the true spirit?"

Fish and butterflies are constantly devouring everything around them. Compared to their true forms, their size is so small that it can be almost ignored. In terms of sheer size, they might not even be as large as an ordinary mortal.

This is actually a compression effect caused by an excessively high status. To reiterate, if mortals are air, then fish and butterflies are black hole matter. Although fish and butterflies are constantly absorbing everything around them, even absorbing the air of a million mortals might not be enough to transform it into a single trace of black hole matter that represents their status.

Their size does not match their status, so fish and butterflies cannot devour everything in the entire dream world system in an instant. Among all the things they devour, the souls of intelligent beings are the highest quality. When an intelligent being dies near them, they will instinctively devour it.

This absorption slightly eased the confinement on him, which is why he can move now.

"...Does this mean I'll have to become a serial killer to operate in this world?" Wu Pifu muttered to himself.

He wasn't sure how long the soul of an intelligent being could be devoured by fish and butterflies, but he estimated it wouldn't be long. So he immediately planned to call Qing and inquire about the situation in this world.

Unexpectedly, Qing had already rolled over and stood up, roaring, "You bunch of bastards who've been scared out of their wits by nightmares, you've got guts, you've got guts..." Then Qing saw corpses all over the ground, each one a gruesome sight, the kind of death he had seen before, on the faces of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people...

I was scared to death!

At that moment, Qing was so frightened that his soul almost fell out. He immediately shut his mouth, looked around, and then saw Wu Pifu looking at him.

"Dude, you're all better!?" Qing exclaimed in surprise, then immediately covered his mouth and grabbed Wu Pifu, continuing to run deeper into the passage.

Before Wu Pifu could even ask a question, Qing pulled him along and started running.

"Get out of here! The main control system of District 13, Taiyi, has collapsed. The entire District 13 is about to be swallowed by nightmares. This place will become the dividing line between nightmares and reality. These dozens of scumbags must have just witnessed the horrors of the nightmare. We were lucky; one of the cripples just collapsed, and the other, the idiot, had only just recovered a little. Neither of us saw what it was. But this kind of luck won't come again. Run..."

Wu Pifu was pulled along by Qing. As Qing spoke, a lot of information naturally began to appear in his mind, as if it were memories that this body itself carried.

There are thirteen regions in total, and thirteen main control systems in total. This is the living territory of the humans in the Heavenly Court.

His physical body and Qing were not among the original humans of the Heavenly Court. Even their parents, their grandfather, and the oldest people they knew were not among the original humans of the Heavenly Court. Where did the humans of the Heavenly Court come from? Why could they only survive in these thirteen regions? What was the main control system of these thirteen regions? He knew none of these things.

However, he knew what lay beyond the thirteen zones.

Nightmare!

An endless nightmare!
That wasn't the dream world structure he was familiar with. There was no so-called absolute reality layer. The dream world was divided into layers from 0.9 to 0.1. There was nothing there, except for the thirteen areas and only nightmares.

Wu Pifu couldn't even tell which layer of the dream world was outside the thirteen areas, or whether this place wasn't the dream world at all, but rather the weekend area.

According to the memories of this body, the thirteen areas were completely enclosed shelter-style metal structures, but the internal space was enormous. Each area carried hundreds of millions of humans and had a main control system as the management center. However, outside of these thirteen areas, the memories were only filled with information such as fear, terror, and nightmares.

Qingbian continued rambling on, "Thirty days ago, a red-level nightmare leak occurred in the thirteenth district, causing a cataclysmic change throughout the entire thirteenth district. Even though Taiyi hasn't been completely destroyed yet, it's probably close. All transportation has been cut off, and reinforcements from the other twelve districts haven't arrived yet. It seems the other twelve districts aren't in much better shape either, but there's still a glimmer of hope. Nuwa, the main control system of the twelfth district, is still there. If we go to the twelfth district, the nightmare can't invade..."

The more Wu Pifu learned about this world from his memories, the more surprised and astonished he became.

His true nature turned to Bodhi Fruit and asked, "Has this fallen into which level of dream world? Was the Heavenly Court in such a dire state from the beginning? Are these thirteen areas spaceships or giant shelters?"

world.

"Bodhi Fruit replied."

Wu Pifu didn't understand and asked again.

This is the Heavenly Court world, and the current level of the Heavenly Court world...

Absolute Reality Layer.

The Bodhi Fruit projected a scene into Wu Pifu's consciousness.

A colossal thirteen-layered structure appeared in his consciousness, each layer covering millions of square kilometers. Then the entire structure began to shrink rapidly, shrinking and shrinking, until it was the size of a bean, a grain of rice, a pinhead, a single pixel…

then……

A gigantic eyeball appeared in the field of vision, filling the entire field of view, staring at the structure that had become so small as to be almost imperceptible.

This is the initial layer of absolute truth.

There are no layers in the dream world, except for reality...

It was a nightmare!

(End of this chapter)