They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 172 A Post-Apocalyptic World

Dan Lei, reminded by Ruan Mei, realized that he could use Suiyang to replenish the consumption of the [Suihuang] source fire. Zhu Mingxianzhou's unorganized Suiyang was truly in dire straits.

When the [Suihuang Sect] attacked previously, they blasted open the aurora particle belt that was inherent to the [Suihuang] body, releasing a large number of newborn suns.

Some of these primordial energies were absorbed by the Flame Aggregate, but many more newly generated primordial energies continued to roam freely around the Zhu Ming Immortal Ship.

These newborn suns will instinctively possess people with strong desires, rich life experiences, or great regrets in their hearts.

And those who are possessed will, in turn, influence Suiyang's temperament.

In this way, this batch of Suiyang is basically useless.

People with strong desires, rich life experiences, and significant regrets tend to have more negative emotions.

Even if this person is a good person in the universal sense.

Intelligent life forms are all two-sided, and the darker side is more emotionally complex.

The saying "Ask about actions, not intentions; if you ask about intentions, you'll find no saints" means just that.

These newly generated primordial energies, after parasitizing their hosts, will instinctively and continuously interfere with their nervous systems, communicate with the hosts, and exploit their inner desires and weaknesses to create hallucinations and stimulate emotions.

Initially, the host simply felt that another "self" had appeared in his brain that could understand him and talk to him.

However, as time goes on (usually within a few days), the host will gradually lose the ability to distinguish whether a thought arises spontaneously or comes from the sun.

After this stage, the host will try their best to satisfy their deepest desires—no matter how shocking or unconventional the matter may be.

The warmonger fights endlessly, the gluttons feast and drink excessively, the lustful indulge in sensual pleasures... Driven by the sun, humanity has completely lost its self-control and morality, unleashing its inner desires.

Therefore, quite a few people suddenly went berserk during this period, keeping the Ten Kings Bureau extremely busy.

However, these escaped spirits that possess humans are among the easiest to distinguish.

As mentioned before, the Fire-Hunting Judges of the Ten Kings Division of the Ming Dynasty would capture the innocent and naive Year Sun, untouched by any emotions, to warm the dream world and tame the immature nature of the flame.

Then these precious yang energies were used on various tools of the Zhu Ming Immortal Boat.

Therefore, the Ming dynasty was actually full of auspicious energy everywhere.

Some clever Suiyang, after realizing they have been captured, will escape from their host's body and then burrow into some tools to absorb their own kind.

The gentle sunlight within those tools was almost powerless against these vicious, human-influenced kin, and was easily absorbed.

At this point, it would be difficult for the Zhu Ming Ten Kings to directly determine which of the solar terms in the tools were normal and which were contaminated.

The only way is to use those warriors who have achieved harmonious coexistence with Suiyang, and use the symbiotic Suiyang to find them one by one.

Distinguishing between different types of escaping ...

But this method of searching is like looking for a needle in a haystack, since Zhu Mingxianzhou has the tools of Suiyang, and the number of them must be in the hundreds of millions.

Therefore, at this stage, Zhu Ming's main method of arresting people is to look for those whose personalities have suddenly changed drastically recently.

However, finding those escaped Suiyang was not actually that difficult for Danlei.

Once the Spirit Binding and General Dispatch is activated, the peaceful and righteous aspects of the year's energy within the tool can be instantly swept away, while those aspects that are restless and agitated can be swept out in an instant.

Therefore, Dan Lei only needs to walk around the streets to be able to use the Spirit Capture and Command Generals technique to capture all these illegal spirits.

Then comes the complete service of using both hands to strip away memories and directly devour pure energy.

Of course, all of this was done in advance of [Yan Ting Jun].

Dan Lei's ability to control spirits is recorded in the Ten Kings Division.

However, when uploading, Han Ya deliberately concealed the fact that it would have side effects on Dan Lei, so as to avoid the Ten Kings' Division issuing an order to periodically review Dan Lei.

Since Dan Lei was already able to capture the souls of the envoys before this, Shi Wangsi didn't take the mere ability to absorb the energy of life forms too seriously.

Therefore, when Yan Tingjun helped Dan Lei deal with the law enforcement authority of the escaped Suiyang, the Ten Kings of Zhu Ming easily passed the order.

However, because Dan Lei's "massacre" of Sui Yang was too blatant, he received complaints within a few days.

The people complaining about Danlei here are not residents of Zhuming Xianzhou, but ordinary people who work diligently and tirelessly for Zhuming.

Those Suiyang who had been trained lost their aggression, but their intelligence remained.

Danlei swallowed Suiyang raw on the street every day, which gave him a huge psychological trauma.

This is equivalent to Hannibal walking down the street and eating several people every day, and no one cares.

Those Suiyangs didn't know that Danlei only targeted bad Suiyangs who weren't officially employed.

They only saw Danlei grabbing Suiyang, who was working in the tools, and eating him like he was grabbing candy from a box, and sometimes he would eat three or four of them while walking down a street.

If you put yourself in Suiyang's shoes, you'll understand how terrifying this situation must be.

This has directly led to the emergence of urban legends about soul-eating two-legged beasts in the Zhu Ming Sui Yang circle.

After the news spread, many of the fleeing Suiyang took the initiative to surrender to the Ten Kings of Zhu Ming, fearing that if they were a step too late, they would be eaten by Dan Lei.

Some of the Suiyang within the tools fled to the Ten Kings Division for protection out of fear, causing those tools to come to a complete standstill.

Therefore, the Ten Kings could only come to Dan Lei to negotiate, asking him to keep a low profile and that it was not illegal for him to take advantage of those unofficial servants.

But you can catch it and take it home to eat; there's no need to scare Suiyang in the street.

Seeing that the Ten Kings had come to persuade him, Dan Lei didn't make things difficult for them and kept a low profile for the next few days.

However, if they encounter any unaffiliated Suiyang on the road, they still capture them and feed them to the [Suihuang] Source Fire.

Dan Lei stopped only when he felt that the energy absorbed by the [Suihuang] source fire in his Danfu had reached its current limit.

Of course, during this time, under Ruan Mei's command, Dan Lei constantly used his powers to create a lot of strange and wonderful machines.

Dan Lei and Ruan Mei did not attempt biological creation experiments here, mainly because the Immortal Boat Alliance was extremely sensitive to biological experiments. If one or two monsters escaped and caused panic, Dan Lei would also be held responsible.

Intelligent machines don't have this problem. Zhu Ming's Immortal Ship may lack other things, but it has a lot of craftsmen.

It's normal for the artisans here to occasionally have a flash of inspiration and create strange and unusual machines; the residents of Zhu Mingxianzhou are used to it.

Moreover, while working on these intelligent machines, Danlei did not forget his purpose of designing new puppets.

Nguyen Mai couldn't help in this regard; she preferred designing living organisms and had little interest in inorganic life.

However, during this time, Danlei still managed to draw up the design based on the image of the Jin dynasty's soul-reaping messenger.

The new puppet created by Danlei this time is a complete magical puppet, with a large number of runes engraved all over its body, and it can release magic.

Their combat power is comparable to that of ordinary Fate Walkers.

Next, it's time to travel to another world and build up the army.

To be honest, Dan Lei hesitated before this time travel.

It wasn't that he was afraid Ruan Mei would discover anything, because Black Tower had already guessed that he had the ability to arrive and return in seconds. Dan Lei's hesitation here was because he couldn't bear to part with Ruan Mei.

Since Nguyen Mai declared Dan Lei qualified, she has been willing to fulfill her responsibilities as his girlfriend.

That Danlei wouldn't be a saint like Liu Xiahui, treating Ruan Mei with the utmost respect.

During this period, Danlei didn't party every night, but he still went out three times a week.

And he slept in the same bed with Nguyen Mai every day.

The thought that these good days would be gone once I went to another world was too much to bear.

Furthermore, we don't know the extent of the industrial capabilities and materials foundation of the new world we're visiting this time.

No matter how optimistic we are, the creation of a magical puppet will conservatively take at least several years.

Therefore, Dan Lei hesitated slightly.

However, Danlei knew that he was far from being able to indulge in the pleasures of love, so he changed his mind and came to the Holy Grail space.

However, when Dan Lei initiated the time travel again, the Holy Grail's consciousness proactively provided feedback, indicating that this time he could bring along items from the Star Iron World.

The reason you can bring items here is simple: the Holy Grail's energy for time travel is now three times what it was before, and with the snake's replenishment, it's now at full energy.

However, Danlei is still traveling alone this time, so the extra energy can be used to carry additional items.

However, these items will not become costumes when brought back from another world, even if they are modified in another world.

Furthermore, Danlei will also need to pay additional travel energy when returning.

Upon hearing this, Dan Lei, adhering to the principle of caution, decided to use half of the transmigration energy as the standard and brought out various items he had on him for the Holy Grail to test.

Only half of it is used here to ensure that if you pass through and are blocked by a BOSS that you cannot resist, you still have a chance to retreat.

It also avoids the situation where you can't bring back the subordinates you recruit in the new world.

However, with this restriction, very few things can be brought.

Fortunately, Dan Lei didn't possess many important items in this universe: a protective staff, a high-level wrist jade artifact, and a sac filled with various Ming Dynasty explosives.

At the same time, Danlei also brought along his two insect familiars.

These things combined require exactly half a person's worth of time travel energy.

However, most of the energy is consumed by the Staff of Preservation.

If he only carries the minimum amount of Zhu Ming explosives, Dan Lei can carry the amount needed for a medium-sized war by himself.

After choosing what to carry, Danlei arrived in the new world in the blink of an eye.

Danlei landed on a barren mountain this time.

The air is filled with magic and elemental energy, and the source of energy is very active, even more so than in the world of High School DxD.

However, this world seems to be a bit terrible.

Looking up, the sky was dark red, and highly corrosive magical dust was constantly falling.

Moreover, this is not Earth, because if you look up, you can clearly see two unknown celestial bodies, one large and one small, hanging in the sky through the clouds.

However, since we're already here, we might as well make the best of it. With Dayuan so active, this world must have plenty of high-quality resources. Even if it really is a post-apocalyptic world, there are still many treasures to be found.

So Danlei took off using the flying rune, wanting to climb high and see the surrounding environment.

Then, Danlei saw various damaged man-made machines scattered in the surrounding valleys.

In terms of style, it doesn't resemble modern machinery; it's closer to cyberpunk.

However, these machines prove that the world has experienced a great war, and the apocalyptic scene was caused by the war.

However, just as Dan Lei was preparing to explore this world as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the distant explosions and violent magical fluctuations told him that this world was actually still at war.

Danlei quickly shielded himself from the magical fluctuations around him and became invisible. He then moved towards the battleground to scout out the situation.

Then, Dan Lei discovered that the two sides in the battle were a giant dragon and a group of about three thousand humanoid "machines".

This dragon is very powerful, at least on par with the five Dragon Kings of the High School DxD world.

But it was already at a disadvantage against those three thousand or so machines.

Those three thousand-plus mechs were all magical machines. Not only could they use magic, but when they formed a combined formation, their attack and defense capabilities reached an astonishing level.

The dragon's attacks were constantly deflected by their spells, and then the dragon was attacked from various angles.

Danlei was genuinely confused, wondering if this world existed in his memories. Where did the Holy Grail send him?

Just as Dan Lei was thinking this, a machine that was besieging the dragon was smashed into pieces by one of its tails, and the head parts flew straight to the place where Dan Lei was hiding and watching the battle.

Upon closer inspection, Dan Lei realized that these machines were actually mechanical androids.

Its internal structure is entirely composed of mechanical components.

So Danlei released his computing power and sent the insects into the machine's head.

The computing power insect quickly located the data storage area. After Dan Lei pried open the mechanical head, he took out the data storage device, which he had never seen before, and began to analyze it using the Jade Emperor.

Since there are countless civilizations in the Star Iron Universe, the computer systems of those newly discovered civilizations cannot be the same as those of the mainstream in the universe.

Therefore, the computers of the mainstream forces in the Star Iron Universe all have the ability to analyze the operating modes of unknown computer hardware.

This feature is primarily designed to provide advance knowledge of the language, customs, and information of unknown civilizations.

To avoid a situation where I say "front gate tower" and the person opposite interprets it as "hip joint".

After all, newly discovered civilizations don't have something as convenient as synesthetic beacons.

However, Danlei then encountered the most troublesome thing in exploring an unknown planet.

That is because the written language is incomprehensible.

The analysis of the robot's data storage went smoothly. The mechanical technology of this android still lagged behind the mainstream technology of Star Iron Universe. Dan Lei's Jade Zhao spent some effort, but still managed to crack its operating program.

However, the text exported from it looked like scribbles to Dan Lei, and he couldn't understand its meaning at all.

Just as Danlei was trying to decipher the meaning of a bunch of unknown characters, the battle between the dragon and these mechanical androids ended.

Driven to the brink by hordes of mechanical androids, the dragon unleashed a massive, unknown magic circle in the sky.

The violent magic blasted towards the mechanical androids, but was ultimately deflected by their deflection spells, preventing it from hitting the main force.

However, this wave destroyed less than half of the mechanical androids' forces.

Seeing this scene, Dan Lei remembered that this was the beginning of the No Game No Life Zero movie! He had somehow arrived in the era of the God Wars, 6000 years before the main storyline of No Game No Life.

(End of this chapter)