The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

"Hmph, regretting it now?" She stood with her hands on her hips, displaying an arrogant, devilish look.

Chapter 350 The Legend of the Demon

The little witch even seemed to have changed her walking posture, from taking small, quick steps following Xue's rule to walking and hopping all the way.

She was hopping and skipping around, and you could tell from her gait that she was very happy, just like a little bear who had stolen some honey.

"Brother, keep up! Once we get over this hill, we'll see the next city! That's our south coast, the economic center of humanity, a megacity with nearly ten million permanent residents." The little witch kept waving her hands, as if trying to show how big the city was.

"If your map were even slightly more accurate, we wouldn't even need to come to the mountaintop to determine our location; we could just teleport there directly," Xue Dinglu said seriously, criticizing her unreliability.

But there was nothing he could do. After all, he wouldn't have too much hope for someone who became a shrine maiden at the age of six and had basically only attended kindergarten.

The little witch in front of him hopped around in the forest, while Xue Luding behind him silently switched his gaze constantly, observing the world.

This is like a planet that exists in both the real and virtual worlds.

However, unlike the inner and outer worlds of the Titan civilization, this world is more like a form of "cognitive pollution."

It's like a filter; if you use your natural eyes, you can't see any filter, you can only see the abandoned and dilapidated world, and the traces left behind when humans died that time hasn't erased.

Although it looks a bit eerie, you can't actually see anything. It's like an LED screen that can't be analyzed in any format, and it can only serve as an eyeball to view the objective, purely material world.

When the God-Purifying Demon Eyes opened, the whole world changed. He could see the "ghostly aura" left behind by evil spirits all over the world.

And occasionally, evil spirits would appear in the sky, floating like kites!

Like balloons, they floated in the air, inflating themselves and staring menacingly at the ground, as if searching for something, twisted and eerie.

Xue's Law attempted to shoot one down.

The cursed blood in his hand instantly transformed into a giant blood bow, and the demons that were shot down seemed to explode like real balloons, turning into a rain of blood that fell from the sky.

After exploding, it immediately revived and desperately searched for traces of the arrow.

However, in the Ghost Eye's vision, they were not evil spirits, but people who looked like they were doing extreme sports. They were wearing flying squirrel suits or hot air balloons, and wearing goggles, shouting and yelling in the air.

Just like the ghost memories we see, different eyes have different information transmission interfaces, and only the information interface corresponding to this world will have similar cognitive modifications.

So, was that giant walnut tree covered in eyeballs really trying to give me the Ghost Eye, or was it just attacking itself in response to stress?

Xue Law didn't know, but Xue Law climbed to the top of the mountain and looked at the distant city. To this day, they still don't know how this world became extinct, or why evil spirits are still rampant in this world.

"By the way, we haven't seen a demon yet, have we?" Xue Dinglu asked.

They have already encountered evil spirits, and may also have witnessed the bizarre, such as the polluted alleys, the deserted yet crowded streets, etc. These may all be areas that have become bizarre, but they just couldn't see them before.

As for the final demon, it seems we've never seen it.

At least in the brief introduction before the little witch, demons are monsters with physical forms. They are monsters that can be easily seen with ordinary eyes, and even something that desperately needs people and can only survive by capturing humans.

That's why Xue's Law believes that the demons in this world may be the work of the apostles.

After all, considering their characteristics of relying on capturing humans to survive, never actively killing humans, only capturing them, and even desperately capturing humans, Xue's Law immediately thought of those apostles who valued population more than anything else.

After all, population is the most important factor for the growth of the divine tree. If the apostles really come to this world, they will probably have to join forces with the local forces to deal with the evil spirits and monsters.

After all, the local gangs are too rude. Those bastards torture and kill humans without any value, and then the tortured humans become worthless bastards again, as if it's a cycle that wastes people's lives and creates more enemies.

These local evil spirits have killed far more than us stinking outsiders. Look at the world! The demons probably wish they could team up with the locals, wipe out this local gang, and then enslave humans, making them work 8 hours a day and only get 2 days off a week.

In short, we haven't seen those demons who are desperately vying for population. It's said that demons also compete with the supernatural beings for population to ensure that they, as outsiders, always have the upper hand, but we've never seen a trace of the demons.

When Xue Dinglu put forward this viewpoint, the little witch Su Su was also stunned. She seemed to rack her brains and said, "That shouldn't be the case. In my impression, demons should appear very frequently. There should be at least one demon residing in a city. When a demon is killed, a new demon will immediately come to disintegrate it, or the original demon will return after being resurrected from hell..."

"Hmm, tell me more about the characteristics of demons," Xue Dinglu continued.

He hadn't asked about the demon's abilities and characteristics in detail before.

The little witch grabbed a tree branch and jumped up, then landed firmly on the mountain path before saying, "Demons are often the embodiment of fear. Each one represents a tangible thing that humans fear. If humans are afraid of them because of this, their ideas will grow, and their power will increase."

"And in the city I live in, the demon is called the 'Snake Demon,' a ferocious nine-headed serpent that frequently abducts humans, attacks the city, and releases large numbers of venomous snakes into the sewers, alleys, and forests. Even after being driven away several times and killed by evil spirits once, it will still return from hell to continue abducting people," the little witch said, describing the characteristics of the demon in this world.

However, Xue's law made his eyelids twitch.

So this is what demons are like. He thought it was something else, like Satan or Lucifer. Turns out they're just a group of tangible monsters that call themselves demons.

"Do you have the Chainsaw Demon and the Dominator Demon here?" Xue asked.

"Hmm... I haven't heard of it yet," the little witch said.

It seems they are not the same type. In short, the concept of a demon seems to be more like a collection of things that humans fear. The more people fear this concept, the stronger the demon becomes.

That's why demons are at odds with the supernatural and evil spirits. Although they are demons, they need humans to survive. If the population were to become extinct, their demonic power would be infinitely weakened.

That's why we see bizarre scenes like this: people desperately killing each other, while demons desperately try to save people, right?

Xue's Law couldn't understand why the world allowed these evil spirits to exist.

After climbing another hill, the two were suddenly greeted by a breathtaking view of the vast blue sea. The sky and the sea seemed to merge into one in the distance, and a magnificent city stood by the sea, along with numerous towns and villages connected to it.

However, this place is now dilapidated, with black and red bloodstains all over the city. In the vision of the Divine Purification Demon Eye, the sky above the city is filled with countless bulging human-shaped balloons, which look at the ground in a distorted way, as if they are constantly searching for something.

Upon seeing this hellish scene, the little witch, who still retained one of her divine and demonic eyes, twitched at the corner of her mouth.

She had no choice but to look at the city with Xue's Law-like eye to avoid being disgusted by the densely packed human-shaped balloons.

Xue Dinglu closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the white of his right eye turned light blue in an instant. His Ghost Eye was activated, and in the vision of this Ghost Eye, the entire city was incredibly noisy and bustling.

The whole world seemed to belong to aviators, with hot air balloons and aircraft dotting the skies above the city. Everyone wore aviator goggles and constantly scanned the area below. Some of the hot air balloons appeared to be working overhead, watering, fertilizing, or spraying pesticides on the farmland below.

A lively scene, as if passion were burning.

But when the ghost eye closed, the entire city was left in ruins.

The original farmland was completely transformed into wild woodland overgrown with weeds and shrubs, and the pilots in the sky all turned into corpse balloons.

"Brother, did you see that? Those evil spirits flying in the sky." The little witch beside her kept talking, picking up the monocular telescope that Xue Dinglu had handed her earlier and looking into the distance.

Xue Dinglu nodded. He actually couldn't understand why the city was full of flying evil spirits.

Do evil spirits have regional characteristics?

"Brother, although I've only heard about it, it seems that the demon that resides in this city is called the 'Dragon Demon.' It's a ferocious and terrifying dragon that excels in aerial combat and harassment, and it's said that each attack causes enormous losses to the people," the little witch said.

As soon as she finished speaking, a large black dot appeared in the sky above the city as if tearing through space. It looked like a ferocious black dragon from hell, covered with twisted spikes, and human skulls were like beads on a necklace hanging around the neck.

It looked extremely terrifying and distorted, and as soon as it appeared, the endless humanoid balloon demons in the eyes of the Divine Purification Demon Eye also started to move. They rushed towards the dragon as if they had spotted prey or were going crazy.

One by one, the balloons exploded the moment they touched the dragon, and the blood and bones turned into fragments that made the dragon demon stagger. Some of them desperately pounced on the dragon's back and began to tear at the dragon's wings with their hands and feet.

In the Ghost Eye, the people on the hot air balloons were shouting and trying to stop the dragon. People dressed in flying squirrel suits jumped off the hot air balloons. Xue Dinglu saw that those people in flying squirrel suits were carrying huge bombs on their backs.

Upon contact with the dragon, they decisively detonated the explosives on their bodies, turning into aerial bombs in an attempt to kill the dragon demon.

"You damned bastards! I need to save people! Are there any humans left? Even just one person would be enough! Humans! Is this metropolis, which once housed tens of millions of people, truly devoid of any survivors? Whoever you are, as long as you're alive, I'll keep you alive. I'll risk my life to protect you and bring you back to hell. Please, whoever you are, if you're still alive, come out now..."

The dragon demon's roar seemed to echo throughout the entire city. It appeared to have used a special magical technique, making it audible even to Xue Lude and his family, who were nearly a hundred kilometers away.

However, by the time the sound was heard, a long time had passed. The dragon demon flew around the city but found no living people. Finally, it could not withstand the attacks of the evil spirits and left the city's skies, covered in blood and wounds.

The humanoid balloons throughout the city stopped attacking the instant the demon left, and continued to drift slowly in the sky as if nothing had happened.

After witnessing this scene, Xue Luding and the little witch fell silent. This upside-down scene made them feel as if their worldview had been completely shattered.

"Just now, that demon seemed to be saying, 'Save humanity'?" The little witch hesitated, then realized that more than half a year had passed since the end of the world, and judging from the dragon demon's appearance, it had been doing this for half a year.

Really are……

The demon wants to save the survivors and vows to protect them to hell at the cost of its own life. Judging from its almost tearful appearance, it would probably be overjoyed to see a survivor.

Why would I have such a dream? And am I even conscious?

The little witch even wondered if she had been under a demon's spell, otherwise how could she have encountered such an absurd situation?

She was looking at the distant city through a monocular telescope, unsure of what to do next.

Xue Dinglu, who had been constantly switching between three perspectives to observe the scene, suddenly had a guess.

Could it be that the evil spirits were created by the world itself as a weapon to deal with outsiders like demons?

An immortal, incorporeal, ferocious monster is used as a weapon in external warfare. It can even turn any dead human into a demon. As soon as these biological weapons appear, they will immediately become the most terrifying monsters.

Just like now, in the vision of the Divine Purification Demon Eye, balloons appear out of thin air in many places in the sky, growing bigger and bigger, gradually becoming human-shaped balloons that continue to float in the sky.

Since demons are immortal, then I will also be immortal, until the demons dare not set foot in this world again.

As for demons needing human fear to grow stronger, then I will kill all the humans in the world, leaving only evil spirits, and thus completely banish the demons.

What happens after humanity dies out? Actually, they don't really die out. Didn't they become evil spirits? They're just a species living in the world as souls. Although it's a bit strange, the world wasn't destroyed by an invasion of outsiders, was it?

In fact, it is possible to preserve only 1-2 human samples. Once all the alien demons have been driven out, the genes of those 1-2 people can be replicated and cloned, and human civilization will return.

The world will recover, and the external enemies will be completely eliminated. This situation is merely a restart of human civilization, and it is not an unacceptable thing for the world.

When this ruthless thought came to mind, Xue was immediately stunned by it.

This idea only arose under absolute rationality, using a tactic that would inflict heavy losses on both sides to completely expel the external enemy. It was also a plan that could only have been developed under the assumption that the demons were alien invaders.

That's simply... an absurd and laughable line of thinking...

However, based on the existing information, given the super-fast operation of Xue's Law's CPU and its astonishing wisdom, there is at least a 40% chance that this is the case!

In other words, this world may not have been destroyed by others, but by its own hands!

When Xue Dinglu realized this, he was stunned again.

He then looked at the little witch, unsure how to voice his conjecture.

It's even possible that the little witch was the last spark sent by the world...

Although she is a living dead, she is no different from a normal person and is fully capable of bearing the hope of human revival. Furthermore, because she is essentially just a living dead connected to the giant walnut tree, an alternative "corpse-dissolving immortal," her lifespan is extremely long.

She grew to the point that as long as the giant walnut tree stands, she will never perish...

So, whether it's the Divine Purification Demon Eye, her own abilities, or the 200 million and 800 million that appear when you look at her with the Divine Purification Demon Eye, is it all just because she is essentially an extension of the giant walnut tree Margaret?

Despite its absurdity and contradictions, Xue's Law, after running through it with its astonishing wisdom, made a horrifying discovery.

There is a greater than 30% chance of this happening!

He was startled by his own thoughts, and the little witch beside him immediately noticed that Xue Dinglu had suddenly shown a hint of emotion.

This emotion is even named—fear!

Although very faint, it was noticeable enough to make her both happy and worried.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Did you find something?" she asked Xue Dinglu.

Xue Dinglu did not reveal his conjecture, as it was merely a guess, and the idea was too shocking to disclose without clear information.

"It's nothing, I was just wondering if the demons might be the work of Margaret the Great Walnut Tree," Xue simply said.

"Sigh...sigh?" The little witch was stunned for a moment. She should have immediately scolded and reprimanded Xue Lude, since their religious deity was Margaret. However, when she thought of how Margaret had tried to vomit out the evil spirits she had led away, she trembled.

Was the world destroyed by Margaret?

This blasphemous thought sent a chill down her spine in an instant, but the more she tried to stop thinking about it, the more of these terrifying thoughts surfaced.

“Let’s go and look for any information left behind by our ancestors in the city, especially information about Doomsday,” Xue Dinglu said.

They had originally planned to find survivors, but after the dragon demon's performance, even the little witch and the others had given up hope of finding any survivors.

A cross-shaped portal appeared at the front of the city.

As soon as Xue and his companion appeared, the humanoid balloon in the sky swooped down. However, halfway down, it seemed to see something extremely terrifying, and immediately rose back into the sky. Then, it saw the two again and continued its descent...

Like a program stuck in an infinite loop, it keeps repeating the same action.

In Ghost Eye's vision, their flying machine was constantly malfunctioning and out of control, roaring downwards incessantly, reminding Xue Lude to hide and get away from the monsters around him.

This chaotic world.

Xue's Law still hasn't figured out who his enemy is. Is it a demon? A devil? Or perhaps Margaret the giant walnut tree who reacted immediately?

He seems to have really lost his sense of the world.

Even now, he was hesitant to make a move, firstly because the World Innovation Era couldn't be activated, and secondly because he was afraid that a single slap would kill all his allies.

But it seems that neither demons nor monsters are immortal... Oh well... whatever...

In short, it's a fucking abstract, messy, ditch world.

Why not just beat the whole world up by yourself? You're tired, just destroy it already.

Xue Lude glanced at the little witch beside him; she seemed to still be in shock that all the evil spirits were created and released by Margaret.