Eternal Night.

Chapter 946 Narrative Collapse
(PS: Tomorrow is Monday, the beginning of the month. I have an appointment with the doctor for a follow-up biphasic scan. I'll be taking one or two fewer updates, depending on what time I get home.)
"Hehe...hehehehehe..."

"Hey, you motherfucker!"

With a single slash, Wu Pifu reduced a gigantic, grinning head to ashes. Looking around, he saw an endless array of human heads as far as the eye could see: head-shaped buildings, head-shaped landmasses, head-shaped flying objects, head-shaped vehicles...

Apart from the six people around him and the vehicle he was in, the entire world had become a bizarre, nightmarish landscape made up of all sorts of human heads, and it was endless with no visible boundaries.

With Wu Pifu taking over the main control system world, the entire First District was completely transformed into a torrent of nightmares.

This is different from District 13. District 13 initially had some judgment effects from the main control system Taiyi. Although Taiyi was later removed and the judgment effects were lost, because many contaminated scenarios had already appeared in District 13, the contamination characteristics had stabilized, so no more or more terrible changes occurred. Even if there were, they were slow and subtle influences.

However, the First District was different. With the amplifier of the world's main control system destroyed, the world fell into Wu Pifu's hands. The entire First District went completely crazy and went on a rampage. In the naked eye of Wu Pifu and others, the entire First District lost its physical form in just a few dozen seconds. No, it was not just physical form anymore. Time, space, logic, and so on were all changed. The whole world became a bizarre and incomprehensible thing.

Fortunately, Wu Pifu had two main control systems. Although he didn't use the so-called amplifier, he made Taiyi and the world's judgment more focused on the vehicle and the people. Therefore, they were not affected by the pollution and nightmares at all and maintained their own physical form.

This was the first time Wu Pifu had ever seen the purest form of pollution, untouched by any prior derivation. And then he realized... he couldn't understand it at all.

It's not the self-enclosed loop at its root; it's something that can't be seen, or even if seen, it can't be known. The purest and most essential pollution is something he can't understand at all.

He didn't know what he had seen; it was something he was completely unable to understand.

It's not emptiness, whether it's the void in the universe or the so-called nothingness, at least he can understand it as "nothingness". Nor is it chaos or disorder, no matter how great the chaos or disorder, he can understand it. Even the narrative alteration, like that of the fish and the butterfly, he can use language or thought to describe the strangeness after the narrative alteration.

Only then did he witness the purest form of pollution firsthand, yet he was utterly unable to describe or articulate it.

The difference in status is too great!
Wu Pifu realized this at that moment.

Based on his current understanding of the levels of life, or rather, the levels he can comprehend, mortals and extraordinary beings are actually on the same level, both at the level of mortals. Mortals can resist the sublimated beings, but they cannot resist the source. After crossing a large level, they cannot resist it. However, understanding is not a problem. As long as they know what the source is, mortals can also describe and understand the source, but that is all. Moreover, even just describing and understanding it may cause mortals to be eroded by the source. This is the first level.

The second level is the sublimated body. The sublimated body can resist the root and can also describe and understand the root without being corrupted. It is considered the middle level among the three levels of the entire dream world before the appearance of the fish and the butterfly, connecting the previous and the next.

However, when the fish and the butterfly appear, the sublimated entity is unable to resist them. When the narrative layer of the fish and the butterfly exerts its power, all sublimated entities are like dreams and bubbles. There is no information about their existence in that narrative layer. It is not that they are weak, but that they are non-existent. This is similar to how mortals step into the infinite loop of the root. No matter how strong you are, you will disappear in an instant. Even if you are as strong as Chu Minghao and Liang Min, this is the case. The sublimated entity is like this when it comes to the fish and the butterfly.

However, the root causes are different.

Wu Pifu carefully recalled that the Root he encountered in the Heavenly Court had actually escaped from the narrative layer of the fish and the butterfly the first time. He didn't know if it was a coincidence, but it was the only time he had seen something escape from the narrative layer of the fish and the butterfly. Although the fish exerted its power afterward and the Root turned into a bubble on the water's surface, it was still far superior to the sublimated beings. At least the Root presented the image of a bubble in the fish's narrative layer.

Wu Pifu guessed that if it weren't for his special nature, other ordinary creatures probably wouldn't even be able to understand and describe fish and butterflies.

So far, in the worldview that Wu Pifu knows, the life levels from weakest to strongest are: the weakest first level, mortal beings; the second level, sublimated beings; and then the third level, the origin. However, there are five ranks of sublimated beings, and Wu Pifu vaguely feels that something is wrong with the origin. Therefore, he still has some doubts about the second and third levels, and he only roughly divides them into categories.

Above that is the fourth layer, the True Rank, occupied by the four beings: the First Immortal, the First Buddha, the Fish, and the Butterfly.

However, Bodhi Fruit clearly states that the first Buddha and the first immortal are close to the true level, but their magnitude is insufficient, while the fish and the butterfly are almost not of the true level. Therefore, none of them belong to the true "true", but can only be said to be "semi-true" existences.

And pollution... or rather, the source of pollution.

It's very likely the fifth floor!
Is it the true "truth" that transcends the existence of "semi-truth," or an inconceivable realm above the true level?

Wu Pifu didn't know, because, to be honest, he was still just an ordinary person, not even a sublimated being at the second level. The source of pollution was really too far beyond his capabilities.

but……

Wu Pifu stared directly at this land of human heads that had emerged from the indescribable. He looked into the infinite distance beyond the land of human heads, where it still presented an indescribable state of pure pollution.

However, with the appearance of the human head land, Qing and the five logistics personnel finally regained their self-awareness. They had just fallen into a coma because they could not understand pure pollution, but this human head land exceeded their pollution resistance. Just by looking at it with the naked eye, their images were visibly blurred and distorted.

"Close your eyes, concentrate, and don't listen or look until I tell you it's okay to open your eyes," Wu Pifu said to the six people.

The six men dared not delay and immediately did as Wu Pifu instructed, but even so, their whole bodies were trembling violently.

Wu Pifu can still leave this crowded area.

The judgments of Taiyi and the world's two main control systems can clear a physical passage, and he can use true damage within five steps to destroy the contamination and open up this passage, so leaving is not a problem, but the key is...

Wu Pifu stared at the pure pollution that was still spreading in the distance. He took a deep breath and said to the five logistics personnel, "Is there any way to wake me up after the agreed time, such as pain or electric shock?"

The five support staff were taken aback, but A5 immediately said, "Our exoskeleton armor can do it! Sir, you just need to put on the exoskeleton armor!"

Wu Pifu nodded slightly, went to the wall of the vehicle, and pressed a button. The metal wall immediately opened, and an exoskeleton armor moved out from behind. Although the logistics personnel certainly couldn't help, the exoskeleton armor had a fully automated system. After he pressed himself against it, the exoskeleton armor quickly put on and fitted him.

"AI, can you hear me?" Wu Pifu asked.

"How can I help you?" A synthesized electronic voice came from the exoskeleton armor. Wu Pifu thought for a moment and said, "Set a timer to wake me up with an internal electrical current in five seconds."

"I'm sorry, pilot, as part of the internal safety system, I don't currently have..."

Wu Pifu directly grasped a main control system in each hand and said, "Taiyi, world, determine the exoskeleton armor and modify its program to eliminate all security systems."

The five logistics personnel's lips twitched as they listened, and A1 went straight to the point: "Sir, the main control system is missing..."

"Judging in progress...judging complete."

"Modifications complete."

"Huh?" Wu Pifu looked at the logistics staff.

"...No." The five people from A1 to A5 almost opened their eyes wide.

Wu Pifu dismissed it, saying, "What's so special about this? The main control system has many functions; you just haven't tried them yet. It can even replace the telephone function."

After saying that, Wu Pifu ignored the five people and directly set up the wake-up function. Sure enough, this time the AI ​​simply said that it had been set.

Without further ado, Wu Pifu went straight to the hatch and said to the AI, "Start the timer!"

Then, he stretched out his hand and spoke to the pure pollution that still existed in the distance: "I am a mere mortal!"

He wasn't really trying to drag the pure pollution into my own space for a duel, but rather attempting to begin anchoring these pure pollutions, and the sources of pollution behind them...

He wanted to test the waters to find out the source of the pollution...

It's a car.

It's a train.

It's a ship.

It's the mainland.

It's a planet.

It's a star, yes yes yes yes yes...

Oh, what did I just see?

A fish on a piece of paper, an illusory butterfly, and a green Bodhi seed.

I……

Logic, a fleeting moment, time...

When...

no……

No no no...

With a deafening explosion, Wu Pifu collapsed to the ground, covered in blood...

At his very essence, his essence began to shatter into pieces. The Bodhi fruit on his head was reduced to a mere seed, the lower half of the fish turned into fish bones and spines, and half of the butterfly's wing vanished completely.

“...the true ‘truth’!”

Wu Pifu muttered these words before fainting.

Meanwhile, a fishbone appeared in the eyes of the five logistics personnel inside the vehicle.

You saw the surface of the water, you saw the fish bones rising to the surface...

Qing saw half of the butterfly's wings collide with him.

You suddenly realize something and see butterflies fluttering around. Wait, why does this butterfly only have wings, or even just half of them...?

(End of this chapter)