The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

There was no increase at all!

At that moment, she stood there blankly, like a rusty machine, seemingly having completely lost her purpose.

Then she stopped talking.

The atmosphere became extremely oppressive at this moment. She was like a stiff, walking corpse. The guy who used to be silly and full of dirty thoughts seemed to have completely changed.

“Let’s go, let me see if there are any survivors,” Xue Dinglu said, stepping onto the sticky steps.

The shoes made an extremely sticky and disgusting sound as they stepped on the steps. Xue Luding looked at the handprint that had been on the steps. It seemed that as he walked down the next step, the bloody handprint gradually moved towards the next step.

The bloody handprint completely disappeared when Xue's Law was halfway through.

As he continued walking downwards, it was as if the handprint had never appeared at all.

The witch followed silently behind Xue Luding, gazing at the apocalyptic world. She seemed like a rusty clockwork, and with each step she took, one could almost hear the rusting sound emanating from her.

Only after Xue Dinglu completely stepped off the steps and onto the road did the bloody handprint reappear on the bottom steps, moving step by step toward the abandoned shrine above.

Outside, rows of wrecked vehicles covered in blood lay scattered across the road, the scene resembling a severe chain-reaction car accident.

The doors of each car were tightly closed, but no bodies were visible inside; only a thick, black liquid filled the interior.

He began scanning again, but found no signs of life.

Even the presence of animals was scarce, with only a few crows emitting hoarse, unpleasant cries in the sky.

“Your world has been destroyed for at least 200 days,” Xue Dinglu said, reaching out to touch the rust on the vehicle and estimating based on the oxygen and water vapor concentration of this world.

"Huh?" The witch was stunned for a moment. She looked up at Xue Dinglu and saw the abandoned vehicles covered with signs of car accidents again.

"So you still think I destroyed your world? I don't know where you got such hostility towards me, but I won't kill any life that's still worth saving, and likewise, I won't let any damned person go." Xue Dinglu said silently, expressionless.

Or rather, he's too lazy to control the cursed blood to adjust his facial muscles and make them show normal emotions.

"There must be evil spirits here, right?" Xue Dinglu said.

"Hmm..." The shrine maiden nodded, following behind him without saying a word.

"But I can't see them. Is there any way for me to see evil spirits?"

"Hmm..." she continued to respond, like a doll.

Xue Lude clicked his tongue in astonishment. It seemed to be completely broken. The little brain he had left was mostly occupied by yellow waste, and the remaining part that could think seemed to have been hit hard, as if it had completely given up the ability to think.

As dusk fell, the twilight sunlight shone on the blood-splattered billboards, and the entire city seemed to be plunged into some kind of twisted eeriness.

However, Schrödinger's law remains unaffected.

As he walked by, the gate that had seemed to be swaying stopped shaking, the streetlights that had been twisted stood straight, and the alley that seemed to be filled with indescribable sounds fell silent in an instant.

The entire city seemed to be completely devoid of living people; even after scanning it with his senses, he didn't encounter any large creatures.

Only the insects living in the sewers and soil tell us that there are still living creatures in this world.

Yes, and those awful crows in the sky.

"It seems there are no living people left at all," Xue Dinglu said in a flat voice, but the shrine maiden beside him, wearing wooden clogs, did not respond. She stared blankly at the world, not saying a word for some reason.

It was as if he were completely dead.

……

Late at night, Xue Dinglu randomly found a place that resembled a supermarket to spend the night.

Several human-shaped bloodstains were found throughout the supermarket, and fingernail scratches were visible on the supermarket doors, walls, and even the floor. These marks extended from the doors to form a long trail of blood.

Xue's Law began to construct the situation here in his mind. After the apocalypse, there should be 3 people hidden here, no, there are 4 people, and traces of a child.

They were all dead, and the trails were everywhere, as if they had been captured alive by some unknown monster and dragged from the inside out.

However, despite this analysis, these traces are already six months old and have become blurred and indistinct due to natural processes.

He sighed deeply, wondering what had happened to this world half a year ago to make it like this.

Apostle invasion?

Unlike the apostles, who, despite their inhumanity and moral depravity (like the filthy rat droppings in a sewer), would never be so ruthless as to exterminate life-bearing planets and the worlds where humanity was born.

Even the Sixth Apostle only turned humans into Zerg, not smeared them all over the place like this city.

This was utter annihilation, a genocide more brutal than any of the apostles.

As for the supermarket shelves, a large number of items in the food section had been removed, and the rest were basically dirty and messy under the influence of time. However, from these things, one can see that this world should be in the information age.

It might even be more advanced than Earth's technology, but now everything is just ruins.

Xue Luding lit a fire on the spot, and the two sat around the fire, with only some items they had taken from the supermarket shelves on the ground beside them.

At night, the city was eerily quiet. There were no insects chirping, no birds singing, not even ghosts. Only the crackling of wood in the fire could be heard.

Xue Lude sat by the fire and began to think about the state of the world.

It seems to be the kind of world destruction caused by the "strange" thing the witch mentioned before.

In an instant, a colossal anomaly seemed to engulf the entire city, killing all humans within its range. Then, the world was left with only this anomaly and some incredibly resilient insects.

Xue Dinglu didn't think of evil spirits and demons because he hadn't seen any evil spirits yet. Demons are physical entities, but he hadn't even seen a single corpse of one.

Is it because I lack clairvoyance? Or is there some other reason?

Xue Dinglu began to ponder the state of the world. Had all 200 million people perished? Were there any survivors? Or could the culprit behind this disaster be found?

He looked at this distorted and bizarre world. There was no sound outside, not even a breeze; it was eerily terrifying.

Suddenly, a figure dressed as a shrine maiden pressed against him. Xue Dinglu was startled for a moment, then saw the shrine maiden leaning close to him and saying, "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you about what happened during the day..."

"Hmm," Xue replied calmly, without any emotion.

Although he didn't know why the girl reacted so strongly when she saw him, Xue Luding could roughly guess that she probably knew his identity as an apostle, or that she had some kind of psychic ability that allowed her to see how many people he had killed.

How many people did he actually kill?

Xue's Law forgot that ever since he and the old undead went to the other world, he had killed a lot of people—hundreds of millions? Or billions?

He forgot, but if he came to a world where resentment could materialize, the resentment behind him should be able to condense into a world-destroying monster.

So either she knew her identity as an apostle, or she saw the resentment behind her and thus believed herself to be a murderer who had killed countless people.

However, there's really no difference.

If he could go back in time, he would still kill, perhaps even more, and more ruthlessly.

"Aren't you angry?" the priestess continued.

"No, I never get angry under any circumstances, or rather, I've lost the ability to feel 'anger,' but I can act very angry." Xue Luding controlled his facial muscles to make an angry expression.

“He didn’t seem angry at all,” the priestess said directly. Then, she seemed to move closer to Xue Luding and hugged him tightly, her bandaged chest touching his hand.

"Let me touch this for you, as compensation for misunderstanding you during the day..." she said, taking Xue Dinglu's hand.

Then, he pretended to grab Xue's hand and put it in his arms, but Xue broke free.

A look of confusion and doubt appeared on her face, but she continued to reach out and grab Xue Dinglu's hand, trying to force it into her arms.

"That's enough, I don't like this." Xue Dinglu withdrew his hand again, expressionless.

"I like it this way. Let's stay here, anyway. The whole world is destroyed, only I'm still alive, only I'm still here..." She stared blankly at her hand being pulled away, then made a move to untie her loose shrine maiden robes, a tear glistening in her eye, and said...

"Love me! Right here..."

"Slap!" Another slap landed on her other cheek. She stared blankly at Xue Dinglu's outstretched hand, then looked up and saw Xue Dinglu still expressionless.

"Stop acting crazy."

While she looked on in astonishment, Xue Dinglu continued.

"What's with that expression? And what's with those tears? Do you really think you can save our destroyed homeland by wallowing in self-pity?" Xue Dinglu said, and at this moment, he even seemed to have a hint of...

Is it anger?

Or is it sorrow?

Xue Dinglu didn't know what emotion he was feeling, but this emotion made him very uncomfortable, and he even had an impulse to destroy something.

So he slapped the witch, causing the tears that were glistening in her eyes to drip onto the ground.

Looking at Xue Luding's expression, perhaps for the first time, she saw a hint of anger on the face of this dimensional demon god. Although it wasn't much, it was there.

Was his anger directed at himself?

But why was he angry because of himself?

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, but please hug me, okay? Just take pity on me, comfort this useless person. Just hold me like this, let me feel that there's at least one other person in this world besides me, okay? Bro, I'm begging you..."

"Brother, I might be the last Candle Star person in the entire universe..."

Chapter 348 The Priestess's Final Journey

A campfire burned in the abandoned supermarket, and the pure white-clad shrine maiden remained asleep, her arms still wrapped around his.

The whole world seemed to be filled only with the sound of burning flames; there was no other sound.

The next morning, just as dawn was breaking, the people around me started fidgeting restlessly, which inadvertently woke up Xue, who was already a light sleeper.

"I'm sorry, brother. I was a bit off yesterday. I won't do it again." The shrine maiden bowed to Xue Dinglu, who waved her hand dismissively.

He was actually thinking of the great sage of the past. Like her, the old man was now the only one left in his entire clan, which was why he would often have a fit of madness at such times.

What Xue Dinglu didn't expect was that her mentality was relatively good, and the degree of her madness was not that serious, or rather, she recovered after only one night of madness.

Previously, Xue Law even felt that she might exhibit more erratic symptoms, but fortunately, it was only a mild case of madness. At worst, she would only want to engage in breeding activities with him directly in this abandoned supermarket.

As for why her level of madness was so low, she probably still held a sliver of hope, fantasizing that there might be other members of her race who could survive in this world besides herself.

After all, they had only explored one city, and there were still many more places they hadn't visited, so perhaps they still harbored that last glimmer of hope.

Unlike the Great Sage whose home planet was once overrun by the Zerg, he knew for certain that he was the last remaining demon in the entire universe.

"Brother, did you ask me yesterday how to see demons clearly?" She stood up, her shrine maiden robe still pure white and brand new. Even after wiping her hands with this shrine maiden robe in the consciousness space, rolling on the ground, and spending the whole night in this abandoned place covered in dust and bloodstains, her body was still pure white.

It was as if a special spell was fixed on this shrine maiden's robe, which could remove any dirt in the shortest amount of time.

"Hmm, how can I see the evil spirits?" Xue Dinglu asked.

Yesterday he sensed the strange spirits, but it seemed that he was not compatible with the protocol of this world and could not see those things. He could only vaguely sense them through their influence on the real world.

"Put my eyes in." She pointed to her own eyeballs, her finger extremely close to the sapphire-like eyeballs, as if she were about to insert her finger into the eye socket and pull out her own eyeballs.

Xue Dinglu frowned and asked without saying a word, "Why?"

“These eyes are called ‘Divine Purification Demon Eyes.’ I was born with the ability to see the sin value of others. At the same time, all evil spirits, demons, and even strange disguises cannot hide from my eyes. I can see through the anomalies in the world and seal or banish them. This is my ability as a priestess.” She pointed to her sapphire-like eyeballs, her finger outstretched as if she were about to pluck one out.

"No need, I don't need your eyes." Xue Dinglu interrupted her directly.

"why?"

"There's no reason why. I'm used to my own eyes. As for your so-called 'magic eyes,' you should cherish them yourself." Xue Dinglu didn't have even the slightest desire for her eyes.

In reality, to him, the girl's eyes were merely a data connector for observing the world, similar to how Xue's Law uses a fiber optic connector, while this world can only use USB-C, and the girl was preparing to forcibly unplug her USB connector and plug it into Xue's Law.

No need.

In just a little time, Xue Lude could analyze her eyes successfully using the cursed blood and then replicate them on himself. It's like he could make a USB adapter for himself to achieve compatibility, without having to forcibly remove someone else's connector.

However, he tried to create a new world last night but failed, which means that the consciousness of this world is either dead or has fallen into the deepest slumber.

However, if humanity has already gone extinct in this world, then the world's consciousness should also be dead, right?

Xue's Law thought this way.

Without a global perspective, it's like even if Xue's Law himself wanted to switch from fiber optic connector to USB mode, there would be no instruction manual or cable markings, so he would have to figure it out bit by bit, resulting in slow progress.

From a purely rational standpoint, it might be better to transplant one of the witch's magic eyes, but Xue Law suddenly didn't want to follow the advice of reason.

Perhaps, as she said, it was a kind of pity. Xue Luding didn't know if pity counted as an emotion, but in this one day, he felt that his emotional fluctuations were more than in the previous few days combined.

“I think I should leave after I’ve given them their funeral,” the priestess suddenly said.

"Hmm?" Xue Dinglu suddenly asked, puzzled.

“Brother, you can’t see it, but I can. Yesterday, there were four evil spirits watching us: a man without skin, a woman without a head, an old man without a face, and a child without legs. At first, they were terrified, but now, these four evil spirits are still watching us…”

"Now I understand, the evil spirits are just the souls of the dead who don't want to return to the Pure Land." She pointed to the supermarket shelves in the distance.

However, Xue Dinglu saw nothing. He only saw the dark red bloodstains dragging on the ground, and that the bloodstains had become so thick over time that they resembled disgusting grease.