From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 476 We must let go of our urge to help others and respect their fate. [Please subscribe! Please vote!]

With a soul power level of 70, Chen Hong was able to begin refining and understanding the models of world laws. His spiritual power was beyond anything this world could imagine.

"I heard... a kind of whisper that's hard to describe. It felt far away, like it wasn't even from the same world. There was a kind of fear in those whispers that made me tremble uncontrollably." A hint of fear appeared on Yuexi's face, but she still obediently described what she had just heard to Chen Hong.

Unfortunately, Chen Hong's attention was no longer on her; instead, he turned his head to look at the dark forest outside Zilong Village, and then interrupted Yuexi: "By the way, what's the name of this forest you're talking about?"

"Huh?" Yuexi was taken aback, but then honestly replied, "That forest is a branch of the Holy Spirit Mountain Range."

"Look, something interesting is coming out," Chen Hong suddenly said with a light laugh towards the direction of the Holy Spirit Forest.

Upon hearing this, Yuexi instinctively turned around, her pupils dilated instantly, and she covered her mouth tightly with both hands, her whole body trembling violently!

What did she see?

In the darkness, aided by the hazy starlight, dark and malevolent tentacles slowly crawled out from the depths of the forest. Anyone who saw those eerie tentacles would feel a deep-seated fear, as if they were tentacles from the abyss of terror, slowly descending upon the human world!

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A buzzing sound, seemingly from the ancient past and the abyss, rang in Yuexi's ears once more. Her gaze followed the tentacles upwards, and then, in the darkness, she saw a huge, pitch-black sphere.

The moment Yuexi's gaze fell upon the pitch-black sphere, countless eyes immediately opened on it, instantly fixing their gaze on her! An overwhelming sense of fear instantly gripped her heart!

Even so, Yuexi still covered her mouth tightly, not daring to make a sound. Just as she was in a state of high tension and about to faint, Chen Hong draped his divine patterned robe, which he had taken off at some point, over Yuexi's body before that big eyeball looked over.

"Do you have any records of that beautiful big eyeball?" Chen Hong, having removed his divine-patterned robes to reveal his plain gray inner lining, lay back down and watched as the big-eyed soul beast, with its ten long legs and large eyeballs, slowly emerged from the Holy Spirit Forest in the distance. He asked Yue Xi, who was still in shock, in a soft voice.

The giant-eyed soul beast scanned Chen Hong's location with its dozens of eyes, and was puzzled. It had clearly sensed a creature watching it, but why did it disappear when it looked over?

The puzzled, large-eyed soul beast stretched out a tentacle from its head, scratched its head, and then, unable to figure it out, gave up on thinking about it. Step by step, it strode along its tentacle, which was more than ten or twenty meters long, toward the center of Purple Dragon Village. Its gait had a kind of beauty that made it seem like it didn't recognize its own family.

This soul beast resembles a black sea urchin, with at least twenty tentacles all over its body, each over ten meters long. The tentacles used for walking are even longer, about twenty meters long, with five or six responsible for walking step by step. Meanwhile, the dozen or so tentacles above constantly wave gently in the air as it walks, like antennae, as if sensing something.

"Beautiful???" Clutching tightly at the divine-patterned robe that gave her immense security, Yuexi, still reeling from the shock, had just caught her breath when she heard Chen Hong's description?!

In an instant, Yuexi felt that she was no longer so safe!

Chen Hong didn't speak, but quietly watched the giant sea urchin-like soul beast with big eyes carefully walk past Purple Dragon Village. Every time its tentacles landed, it seemed to intentionally avoid the wooden house, trying not to cause any other disturbance.

However, a scream broke the silence of the night.

"Ah! A monster! Waaaaah! A monster!!" In the deathly silent Purple Dragon Village, a disobedient child slammed the window shut and hid under his blankets, while his sleeping parents turned pale instantly.

Chen Hong remembered that voice well; it seemed to be the boy who kept calling out "Sister Yuexi" when Yuexi entered the village. He was quite lively and cheerful.

The boy's shout instantly silenced the already tranquil Purple Dragon Village, leaving not even a sound. Clearly, everyone realized what was happening.

The giant eye of the soul beast, walking step by step in the dark sky above the village, looked towards the source of the sound. After hesitating for a moment, it walked to that place in a few steps, and then the giant eye in the middle silently looked at the wooden house below.

Its inherent mental pressure field undoubtedly made the three people inside the wooden house tense. The boy peeked out and glanced at the roof, only to find that his roof had disappeared. A gray eye, more than ten meters in diameter, stared coldly at him. At the same time, countless eyeballs opened on its tentacles, all motionless and fixedly watching him!

"Ah!" the boy screamed in terror, then desperately tried to push his parents, who were sleeping in the other bed and had pale faces.

"Dad! Mom! Run! Help! There's a monster! Help! Wake up!!"

In the distance, Yuexi heard the scream, biting her lip, her face drained of color.

"Brother Chen Chen... is there any hope for him?" To Chen Hong's slight surprise, the little girl asked him whether there was any hope, rather than whether he could be saved.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Hong looked at the large eyeballs in the sky above the distant village and said softly, "Your ancestors may have made a pact with these spirit beasts, each taking what they needed. There are actually quite a few people in the village who have seen the large eyeballs, and your father should have seen them too, but they can't say anything."

Village Chief Xu must have met him before, otherwise he wouldn't have hinted that Big Eyeball was coming tonight. Xu Hai knew this because he hadn't slept that night; otherwise, he wouldn't have noticed Yuexi upstairs while he was anxiously staring blankly inside.

"As for the reason, it's very simple: fear stems from the unknown."

"The big-eyed child has a certain behavioral logic; he follows the rules. It's fine for that child to glance at him; curiosity is human nature and normal. But his subsequent behavior broke the 'don't say' rule, and he's beyond saving."

Sure enough, as Chen Hong finished speaking, the giant eyeball in the sky flashed with a gray light, and an invisible beam of light shot out, plunging the family of three in the wooden house below into an eternal dream. The giant eyeball then continued walking towards the center of the village.

Knowing what had happened, Yuexi's face turned pale, but she didn't say anything.

"Didn't you say you wanted to change the village? The way to change it is to establish new rules."

"That spirit beast is only at the Purple Realm level. Although its spiritual power may be comparable to that of a Black Realm spirit beast, it would be a very simple matter for me to suppress it."

"But I'm a reasonable person, and I don't really agree with the rules you have. In fact, I represent a new set of rules."

"I did some rough reasoning today: daytime belongs to the sun, and nighttime belongs to them. Or rather, daytime is hope, and nighttime is fear. If you want to change things, you should go to your Ming City, and as the daytime, establish new rules with the night."

"However, you must remember one thing: the new rules of the future cannot judge the old rules of the present."

If a soul beast were to indiscriminately slaughter humans, Chen Hong would show it what true cruelty is. He's a respectable person, and respectable people only conduct legitimate biological experiments. But clearly, the other party is following some kind of rule, and even if Chen Hong disapproves, he won't say anything. At most, he might later negotiate with the master behind the giant eyeball to establish new rules.

However, before new rules are established, the behavior of these big-eyed people is reasonable and cannot be criticized by later rules.

Just like laws in the human world, if someone committed a crime in the past that wasn't punishable by death under old laws, and then you amend the laws in the future to bring back and execute other criminals who weren't punishable by death when they're old?

Therefore, sometimes we need to set aside our desire to help others and respect their fate.

(End of this chapter)