The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

"What's wrong? Is their race something wrong?" Old Green said.

"No, I seem to have discovered some different information. The previous body samples were too few to see it." Xue Dinglu immediately displayed the cellular structure of the group of people. The strange shape and the basic cellular structure of these five people were consistent.

In other words, the Thing and the people on this hellish planet are essentially the same species, and they haven't even broken free from reproductive isolation.

However, one thing is strange: the telomeres of the oddly shaped creature are very active and are constantly growing, while the telomeres of the princess and the father and daughter are like those of normal carbon-based organisms, aging over time.

From a biological perspective, telomeres are key nodes that affect the lifespan of carbon-based organisms.

"You only mentioned the princess and the father and daughter, but what about the 'village chief' who looks just like me?" Old Green seemed to have discovered a blind spot.

“His telomeres are infinitely long, like a freak.” Xue Dinglu pulled up the old village chief’s information. “That’s what puzzles me the most.”

Chapter 153 A Fairy Tale World Connected to Hell

Old Green was taken aback. His knowledge of DNA, genes, and the like was limited to the few times he had seen Ultraman in recent days and the content of Xue's Law in his clinical medicine course.

He could understand, but not delve into the details. Even with just a basic grasp of the meaning, he exclaimed in horror, "So, does that mean the guy with the same face as me is actually exactly the same as those freaks outside?"

“From a species perspective, they are all exactly the same, but from the combined analysis of telomeres and DNA, that old village chief is a humanoid ‘freak’,” Xue Dinglu said, looking at the village chief’s small villa.

This information left old Grimm speechless. As the headmaster of a magic academy in a fairy tale world, he had seen all sorts of situations, but he had never seen anything like this before.

This world was too strange for them: distorted human heads, humans that corresponded to those in fairy tales, and "Chief Green," who seemed to have long since become a monster but still maintained his human appearance.

Xue Lu looked at the city-state and continued, "Then let me tell you something even stranger: those freaks still have their own language, and they keep talking."

"And these primitive people, who could not understand the language of the monsters, regarded it as a polluted language, and tried to resist the unkillable monsters with their ridiculous spears."

“But according to my analysis, the morph’s words were ‘I feel great’ and ‘I’ve come to save you,’” Xue Dinglu continued. “And what I saw with my own eyes was that after the morph pulled a human’s head off and inserted it into its own body, the head immediately came back to life and assimilated with the morph.”

Xue Law showed Old Green all the information he knew.

Old Green stared blankly at Xue's law and said, "What are you trying to say?"

“I’m wondering, is it possible that the Things really wanted to ‘save these people’?” Xue Law made a guess that Old Green could never have imagined, “It’s just that the Things’ method of saving them is ‘assimilation’.”

“And there’s another point of suspicion: that ‘Village Chief Green’ who has the same face as you seems to know more information, but he has always kept his secrets. Unless I directly and violently obtain his information, and he is a humanoid monster with reason,” Xue Dinglu continued.

"Then what is their purpose?" Old Green did not completely agree with Xue's conjecture. He raised his own questions, as there were too many doubts about both the freak and the old village chief.

"I don't know, so I'm going to find a monster to do an experiment on." Xue Dinglu stood up. With his skills, he could open portals at will in this world, no longer needing to walk out under the noses of these people.

Soon, he crossed the portal and arrived outside the village, the very place where Xue Daolu had just arrived in this world.

This place has once again become a hellish place filled with bizarre creatures. Underfoot is a fungal carpet that feels like flesh and blood, and in the distance, a grotesque creature carrying a lantern with a human head seems to be searching for something.

Upon discovering Xue's Law, these freaks became extremely excited. They rushed towards Xue's Law with all their might, chanting frantically, "I've come to save you!"

"I'm here to help you!"

As Xue Luding looked at the group of frenzied monsters, a ball of holy light appeared in his hand, and he began to chant rapidly.

"Holy Light Technique!"

A beam of light, like the sun, rose into the sky, instantly pushing aside the entire fungal carpet on the ground. The grotesque creatures that had merged with the fungal carpet screamed because they couldn't get through, but those with basic biological shapes still charged forward, howling.

It seems that removing the heads of other humans and attaching them to their own bodies is the most important thing to them.

Xue Luding produced a decapitation blade, and the next moment, the monster with the strength of about level 2 that rushed up was dismembered. Xue Luding threw its two heads into the fungal carpet, while Xue Luding controlled the headless body.

Then, as cruelly as slaughtering livestock, they quickly removed everything except a whole spine that looked like a sheep scorpion. The bloody scene made Old Green frown.

Even after detaching from its body, the grotesque spine resembling a scorpion seemed to be struggling, displaying unparalleled vitality. Because of the Holy Light, the creep couldn't get through, and the other grotesques could only rage helplessly outside the Holy Light.

"What are you going to do with this thing that you've peeled off?" Old Green looked at the grotesque spine that was struggling in Xue Luding's hand, writhing like a twisted demonic sword. This horrific scene was something that Xue Luding, a child, was not capable of doing.

No, Old Green looked at the other monstrosities and realized something. Although those monstrosities that could move were very twisted, their heads, when not used as tools or weapons, were all connected to their spines.

In other words, this spine-like structure is not only their weapon, but also a core organ that allows multiple heads to connect together.

Then, Old Green thought of an even more terrifying possibility. He looked at Xue Luding and asked in horror, "You don't mean to put this spine on your body!"

"Hmm? You guessed it?" Xue Dinglu said, the cursed blood enveloping the scorpion. This treasure from the Great Sage is still his most frequently used treasure.

Even if an unpredictable situation arises due to Xue's Law, the cursed blood will instantly strip away the contamination from this spine and all corresponding areas.

"Are you crazy?" Old Green couldn't understand why Xue Law would take such a risk. Has this kid always been this reckless? The unknown monster's spine pierced directly into his body without any hesitation.

Is he a tiger?

And that still-living, constantly twisting spine didn't look like a good thing at all. Old Green was really afraid that once Xue Law installed this thing, it would turn into a monster in the next second, and then say, "I feel great now, I'm here to save you."

That's it.

"No, old Green, listen to me." Xue Lude looked at the entire world covered by the fungal carpet. It was like hell, with monsters roaming, flesh and blood everywhere, and twisted grotesques repeating the same words over and over again.

What puzzles Xue's Law even more is why the emergency communication device that came out of the fairy tale world ended up in this hellish world through the portal.

Thinking of this, he pointed to the village in the distance and said, "Old Green, why does that old village chief have the same face as you?"

Old Green was stunned; he couldn't answer.

"Why does the Silver Princess still have the face of a princess in this village?"

Why is there over a thousand people in the Silver Kingdom of the fairy tale world, while the human village in this world still only has over a thousand people?

"Why would people from your fairy tale world correspond to this hellish planet?"

"Why would the people of the Silver Kingdom in your fairy tale world migrate here and establish the Silver Kingdom, while the ancestors of these people in this hell were most likely also migrants who settled here?"

"Believe it or not, if we search carefully in that village, we can still find scholars who look like that court magician Watson, as well as guards who look like knights among those otherworldly country bumpkins from the Silver Kingdom?"

Are there really so many coincidences?

Xue's Law pointed out one by one all the key points in this hellish world that corresponded to the fairy tale world, while Old Green's face grew increasingly grim, and his beard was pulled bald.

Everything points to the fact that his world might be fake, so what is he?

“No, there’s a problem with your reasoning. According to you, the king of the Silver Kingdom isn’t me at all. Then why does the king of this village have the same face as me?” Old Green pointed out the flaw in Schrödinger’s law reasoning.

Xue Dinglu laughed, holding up the still-wriggling spine in his hand, and said, "This is exactly the problem I'm looking for, which is why I'm using these strange shapes to gather information!"

"Since we've been in this world, we basically can't get any more information, and I can't contact your world consciousness, or maybe this hell planet doesn't even have a world consciousness. But it doesn't matter. I've found that in this situation, the simplest and most direct method is the fastest way to get information!"

Xue Dinglu smiled, holy light shining on his face. Behind him were countless heads that were constantly muttering in their sleep. The spine in his hand struggled like a worm. This sacred yet eerie scene made his throat go dry.

Old Green asked, trembling, "What are you going to do!"

"I'm not human anymore! Temporarily, cursed blood, expel this spine from my body in one minute!" Xue Dinglu suddenly grabbed the spine and shoved it into his back.

The next moment, as if it had found a host, the spine quickly burrowed into Xue Lude's body and merged with his spine, as Xue Lude deliberately loosened his body's protection.

Suddenly, everything changed!

The bizarre, twisted human heads disappeared, and the blood-soaked hell vanished.

Xue Dinglu stood in a world of birdsong and fragrant flowers, where sunlight streamed through the gaps in the blue sky, bathing the world in a radiant, fairytale-like splendor.

Flowers bloom in profusion, their red, yellow, and purple hues weaving together to create a vibrant scene. Bees flit among the blossoms, collecting sweet nectar, while colorful butterflies dance in the air, adding a touch of energy to this tranquil landscape.

Cute, fluffy little animals walked around Xue Luding. He looked up and gazed in the direction of the original village, only to find that it was a country filled with thorns and flowers.

A silver dragon seemed to roar in the sky, and the surrounding small animals scattered and fled.

Seeing this scene of going from hell to a fairy tale world in an instant, Old Green's expression was completely distorted. He looked at Xue Lude in horror, at this fairy tale world, and at the Silver City that had been destroyed by the witch in the direction of the original primitive village.

The silvery-white dragon instantly landed in front of Xue Dinglu, its enormous body filling the entire field of vision, making even the old mage, Old Green, wary.

At that moment, he felt as if his head had exploded, with countless pieces of knowledge and universes spinning in his mind, making it impossible for him to think. For the first time, this old mage experienced the feeling of his worldview collapsing.

The next moment, the silver dragon gently flapped its wings and instantly transformed into a stunningly beautiful woman. Her long hair cascaded down like a waterfall, her skin was as white as snow, and her eyes were as deep as the sea. She wore a witch's hat like a sorceress.

The witch looked at Xue Luding, and this extremely charming older sister revealed a predatory smile on her lips, her breasts almost bursting out: "Beautiful young man, welcome to my castle, Silver City!"

Xue Lude smiled and looked at Old Green, whose expression was contorted at the moment, and said, "Welcome home, old headmaster. Do you understand now? Those freaks are actually creatures living in a fairy tale world. They really want to bring other people back to the fairy tale world."

"And beyond this beautiful fairy tale world lies a hellish planet!"

Chapter 154 The Truth About Hell and Fairy Tale World

Sunlight filtered through the layers of leaves, dappling the forest floor, and a witch in a flowing gauze dress licked her lips.

The flowers closed their buds at this moment, and the Silver Kingdom in the distance, filled with thorns and fragrant flowers, looked like a dreamlike fairyland under the sunlight.

The group of furry little animals of different species stopped playing and all hid in the tree hole, peeking out furtively, seemingly muttering something to each other.

All of this plunged old Green into complete disbelief and confusion. He couldn't believe that his home was merely a fictional world, a vassal of this hellish planet.

If this is true, wouldn't that be incredibly tragic...?

However, as he looked into the distance, he sensed the familiar magic and scent in the air. Amidst the fragrance of flowers, he saw many adventurers stationed around the Silver Kingdom.

No, something's wrong!

Old Green seemed to be trying to deceive himself, or perhaps making a final stand. He said directly, "Then why are the Silver Nation people who came to Blue Star in normal human form? According to your logic, shouldn't they be grotesque creatures?"

Xue Lude smiled. He was actually waiting for the answer to this question. Although many of his previous guesses were just wild guesses without any factual basis, there were other species on site that could serve as beacons.

Xue Dinglu turned his head and looked at the big sister who had transformed from a silver dragon. This woman seemed to be the Silver Witch that the people of the Silver Kingdom were talking about.

10 seconds left.

“I apologize, Miss Witch. I am a traveler from another world. I apologize for my rudeness earlier.” Xue Dinglu extended his hand. “In my homeland, a handshake is a gesture of friendship.”

4 seconds left.

“You can call me Princess Silver, the mistress of the Silver Kingdom.” The witch immediately extended her hand and shook hands with Xue Dinglu.

The witch's hands were very cold, and she seemed quite restless as she scratched Xue's palm with her index finger.

"2..." Xue's Law silently counted down the seconds.

"Hmm?" The witch seemed a little puzzled by what Xue Luding was muttering to himself, and silently took a step closer.

"1!"

"Buzz!"

The world spun around, the witch who had been holding her vanished, the bright sunlight disappeared, and all the small animals and the fragrance of flowers around them vanished, leaving only the strange creatures that had gathered in the distance, muttering incessantly.

His back was soaked with blood, the movement of the cursed blood being expelled from the grotesque spine that had pierced his skin.

Old Green: "!!!"

Something's wrong. Why isn't that witch in this world? Something's not right... something's not right...

If his world and this hell were mirror images of each other, then the Silver Witch should correspond to a powerful monster. However, the witch that Xue Dinglu was holding disappeared directly, and there was no monster in front of him.

Even now, there are no moving monsters around Xue Dinglu, only head-like figures whispering in the distance.

"I understand now, so that's how it is. I'm gradually coming to understand everything." Xue Luding grabbed the grotesque spine, and the cursed blood immediately covered it. The spine struggled and twisted desperately, and was finally forcibly twisted by the cursed blood into a bone bracelet that was worn on Xue Luding's wrist.

"What do you understand?" Old Green's lips parted slightly, unable to close for a long time, his muttering trembling, as if even his voice was no longer the one he was familiar with.

“The fairy tale world should originally have been just a virtual world. The original inhabitants of this planet created a virtual world of mental network in order to escape some kind of disaster or for some other reason.” Xue Dinglu raised his hand and looked at the bracelet on his wrist.

"The distorted human head of the Thing is actually a life support pod, the creep is the hub for delivering nutrients, and the large, movable Things are backup batteries for delivering nutrients to the head... If nothing goes wrong, they can ignore this hellish world and living environment and spend millions, billions of years in this wonderful virtual world..."

Xue Dinglu raised his head, thinking of the "Infinite Tsukuyomi" plan in a certain ninja village brawl.

That fairy tale world shares a similar concept with "Infinite Tsukuyomi".

The hellish reality has been abandoned, and everyone lives in a world of illusion. Both the morphs and the creep are merely devices to keep people living in this world of illusion forever.

"But why has my illusory world become real?" Old Grimm said, his wand trembling slightly, as if it could sense the turmoil in its master's heart. The wrinkles on his thin face seemed to become more pronounced in an instant.

"That's the question I don't know either, but just like you said, the world of illusion has become real." Xue Dinglu took out his phone, turned on the screen, and started playing a video of "Ultraman Tiga".

"Just like my cell phone, this tokusatsu drama is just an illusion, but suddenly one day I can enter the tokusatsu drama, and the people in the tokusatsu drama can enter my world. The two worlds are like two sides of a mirror, reflecting each other but moving forward independently."

"It's like this hellish world is the surface world, and the fairy tale world is the inner world. There is a 'god' who turned this virtual world into reality and let it evolve on its own for countless years."

Xue Ludao tossed his phone to Old Green, who fell silent. This episode happened to be the one about "Zijiela Flowers," which he had seen before. He had even complained to Xue Ludao at the time, "Isn't living in a fake world just deceiving yourself?"

But at this moment, the boomerang mercilessly pierced his body. He felt that he could not breathe, his whole body was ice cold, his hands and feet were trembling, and the whole world had lost its familiarity.

Although there are still many doubts, they are no longer important now, because all that is needed is to know that a single strange spine can instantly travel between the fairy tale world and this hellish planet, and all other minor doubts are insignificant.

"So, the village elder, Grimm, is the real Grimm, and I am just a copy in the fairy tale world, right?" He closed his eyes and spoke this cruel truth.

"Yes and no. I suspect that 'god' will copy all the people in Hell Star who haven't been connected yet at a certain time, and then throw them into the fairy tale world to fend for themselves. If people in Hell are assimilated by the monster, they will directly replace the original individuals in the fairy tale world, like time travel."

After Xue's law was explained, Old Green understood what he meant and added, "Like the episode with Charlie Ga, what's the connection between 'Madoka Daigo' and 'Nagano Hiroshi'?"