Marvelous Mecha

After the death knell sounded, the gray sky began to transform at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if a basin of blood had been suddenly splashed on the clouds, turning them bright red.

Everything visible, whether the sky or the earth, seemed to decay and wither almost as if on fast-forward, then weather and turn into rust-stained blood red.

The river, originally dim yellow, now looked more like a river of blood, with floating corpses writhing on it…

Eggy had never seen such a scene before. Even though it knew Feng Yi was strong, the real environment around still filled it with fear. "I suggest we find a place to hide."

"What, are you scared?"

"How can I not be? I've recorded some information on this sort of thing."

It explained to Feng Yi the significant features of this worldview, especially during the conversion to an inner world, the strength of monsters could leap several levels. This wasn't the scariest part—the most daunting part was that as the power of the curse rose, ordinary people who hadn't taken refuge might be erased by the worldview in some bizarre form.

Besides that, it emphasized Xiu Yi's source of fear, suggesting that if the rules were right, the monster Feng Yi had killed could very likely be revived at full health after another round of worldview conversion.

"So you mean…?"

"The reason is simple," Eggy said seriously. "This belongs to the basic rules of the worldview. Actually, the rules of the curse are quite similar; anyone ensnared by the curse falls into a cycle of reincarnation. There's a saying in China: 'Only he who tied the bell on the tiger can take it off.' Unless the curse itself is broken, I don't believe the cycle will end."

Feng Yi said, "I can confirm that monster is gone."

"Hey, I don't see it that way," Eggy retorted. "If the monster disappeared, it would mean breaking the curse, disrupting the rules of this time-space. But this time-space is still running according to its laws. What do you say?"

"So you think this time-space hasn't disappeared, and the monster still exists?"

"Yes."

To this, Feng Yi could only smile bitterly and shake his head. If transcendental power was restricted by the laws of time-space, bound by the curse rules, then his attacks inherently lack 'transcendence'; they'd merely be considered ordinary cross-dimensional pursuits.

But Feng Yi didn't explain further. He simply led Eggy through the church sanctuary, all the way to the terrifying room once created by Xiu Yi.

Seeing this scene, its dinosaur skin almost burst open, "I don't want to go in there."

"Hey, come on old pal, don't be so fussy."

Feng Yi lit a cigarette and walked straight into the cursed villa. The door creaked in the breeze, but he paid no heed as he passed through the screen, soon arriving in an even darker inner room.

"Damn, this kind of gloomy place and you still dare to come in? Boss, you're really not timid, huh?"

"Cowardice is merely uncertainty towards the unknown. What's there to fear?"

Feng Yi, with a lifetime of righteousness, had lived two lives, harboring an invincible belief. Even on the verge of death during his first life, he had never admitted cowardice. How could he possibly be suppressed by mere fear?

He chose not to interfere with the curse because he didn't want to use force to meddle in other dimensions; purifying it is but a thought. Yet, this world brimming with negative energy could do without. But, where there is negative, there's positive, so Feng Yi chose not to intervene.

"Let's go, let's find the light crystal."

"Alright."

Eggy also noticed that things seemed not so scary here. In truth, it simply didn't want to take risks, somewhat similar in character to Zhang Xiaobo. In this world, there were only a few people it truly trusted: Feng Yi, Blade Warrior, Lasso, Noah, Roland, and one more…

"Speaking of which, is there no news of Roland recently?"

"You miss her?"

"Well, she's been an old friend for hundreds of years. Ever since I recovered my memory, it seems I haven't seen her."

"Hehe, you'll definitely see her."

"How can you be so sure?"

"Of course, I'm sure. When a disaster occurs in the future, or some years, or many years later, such a person will appear. I guess: she'll often hold a golden apple, eat when hungry, eat when she wants to, throw it when she wishes, no matter what, the apple will change according to her desire. The destructive limit of the apple is about equal to part of my power; if I die one day, that apple will be the only guardian I leave in this world."

"Damn, we've known each other for so long, and you gave the apple to an old lady you've only seen a few times."

"Hehe, you can't say that. After all, she's a witness of the times." Meanwhile, Feng Yi secretly endowed part of his transcendental power onto Eggy.

The two of them continued their way, chatting, while casually demolishing little monsters along the path, soon finding twenty-four light crystals distributed throughout this world. With these light crystals, they could manufacture a considerable number of game machines.

Taking other needs into account, Feng Yi used the Third Rhythm to continuously jump to the star gates of a four-dimensional universe.

These are ancient relics left behind by Magic Crystal civilization, doors of azure light extending like straight starry paths to the end of perception, adorned with dream-like colors, having extremely high reference value.

Unfortunately, due to the dimensional leap and distortion of spatial nodes, humans cannot reach this time-space without opening a dual path or entering an observer state to shift dimensions.

Once humans attain enough strength to open a dual path and reach here, the technology of Magic Crystals will be insignificant.

So Feng Yi felt no burden in taking these light crystals.

After some time, he used his power to completely separate the light crystals and extract all the liquid metal from the metal sea, then returned to a six-dimensional time-space, dumping the items on a solitary planet, where Mo Ying stood on this planet.

Mo Ying was overjoyed to see this. Wonderful, truly wonderful! With these hardware supports, Ink Star can mass-produce Little Overlord. "I'm planning to do big business."

"Ahem, you're the one promoting this planet's development, is making Little Overlord really appropriate?"

"What's inappropriate about it? Life on Ink Star is dull and boring. I plan to establish a mutual aid organization similar to the Freedom Bounty Tribe."

It also discovered that many virtues of human civilization are worth emulating, like reading novels, or passing time through games; work efficiency achieved by balancing work and leisure is far superior to rigid labor, which is a ladder accelerating the development of Ink Star civilization.

This made Feng Yi somewhat frustrated. Ink Star could indeed learn a lot from humans, but humans find it hard to learn anything from the physical structures of advanced civilizations.

It's akin to humans and animals; thanks to dragonflies, humans have helicopters; thanks to ants, people have information algorithms; humans invented syringes inspired by mosquito organs, cameras by fly eyes, and torpedoes and submarines by fish. You'll realize that the human essence is like a counterfeit repeating machine, yet animals can't learn anything from them. Perhaps knowledge instinctively seeks survival.

In essence, this is not unlike the gap between higher dimensions.