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Chapter 498: Does This Mud Bully the Weak?
Chapter 498: Does This Mud Bully the Weak?
"Too sticky, I can barely handle it." Qin Muye scooped up a large clump of the spiritual calamity mud and left the Spirit Hero Land. This stuff, once in the real world, exhibited a living-like appearance, instinctively moving toward all living beings.
If Qin Muye hadn't acted quickly, this clump would have spread throughout the entire Qing Song Village by now.
The perception and judgment of this substance were not based on life but rather on consciousness or, more mysteriously, wisdom. This was what Qin Muye inferred from the data he obtained from the clump of mud.
However, his expression was grim.
"Why did it ignore me? Is my brain not good enough, or is it simply bullying the weak?" Qin Muye felt that this thing dared to discriminate against him.
When the clump of mud slipped from his hand, it completely ignored him, indicating that Qin Muye was not within its target range. It only targeted people with self-aware consciousness.
"It can't be species-specific, right? That's unlikely."
Qin Muye took out a spirit creature. After wriggling for a while, the mud chose to pounce on it but was stopped by Qin Muye.
"Confirmed, it's bullying the weak." After testing it on the spirit creature, Qin Muye understood that this thing wasn't picky; it simply didn't dare to act against him.
After sending the spirit creature back, Qin Muye tried to further study whether the mud had consciousness, as how else could it have such a setting of bullying the weak?
"Alright, it's just instinctively avoiding danger, not bullying the weak. But I'm curious, how did it detect that I'm different?"
Even without consciousness, it could sense the danger from Qin Muye, which was not ordinary.
Even a ninth-rank Spirit Summoner standing in front of Qin Muye would only see him as a weak, unranked individual, but this large clump of mud could sense the danger from Qin Muye. This feeling was similar to when the Greed, Hatred, and Delusion demons and the Mother Goddess of Gendaya had detected his true nature.
Back then, the Greed, Hatred, and Delusion demons had immediately recognized him as not human, while the Mother Goddess of Gendaya could anticipate the malice of the Abyss toward the entire world.
Despite occasionally exposing his true nature, as long as he didn't act, few could see through his disguise. Only these special, boss-level entities had the capability.
"Is the mud in the Spirit Hero Land a special, boss-level entity?"
Qin Muye quickly redefined it. The large clump of mud in his hand had no self-awareness, but the black mud in the Spirit Hero Land might be different.
It just hadn't awakened yet; otherwise, it might have fought Qin Muye.
He had taken such a large clump from the black mud for research, akin to digging out a chunk of flesh from someone's thigh.
Anyone would be furious in such a situation.
"Scooping it away isn't possible; I can only wait for the end-of-the-world calamity to bring it out."
Qin Muye wasn't interested in the spiritual calamity mud; he was interested in the Spirit Hero Land. His mental body had tried to kick the mud out while it was still developing, but found that the mud and the land were more closely connected than he was.
So, he had to put it on hold.
"In fact, I'm also curious. There's only a little over a month left, how can so much be filled and overflow?"
The new protagonist could indirectly come into contact with the spiritual calamity mud through the Heavenly Tower, but that was just contact; it couldn't come out.
The only way for it to leave the Spirit Hero Land would be to overflow past the firewall. There was still a significant gap before that could happen.
"Admittedly, this firewall is quite resilient, with excellent self-repair and self-adaptation capabilities. Unfortunately, it only has these functions left." Qin Muye didn't think much of the firewall's technology. After cracking it, he had learned its self-repair and self-adaptation capabilities, which he had already mastered. The slow cracking was due to the firewall's robustness.
It's like a wall; you know it's built with cement bricks, but how does that affect your speed of dismantling it?
Just because you know the materials and the mason's technique doesn't mean you'll dismantle it any faster. You still need to use an excavator or a sledgehammer.
"So, what changes will occur when the protagonist makes contact?"
Qin Muye returned to the starting point. He could confirm that this change might be related to the protagonist aura. "If this is the case, in this world, isn't the protagonist aura the true essence, and the protagonist just a mere accessory?"
"The other worlds might not know, but in this world, it might indeed be like this."
"If I had obtained the protagonist identity, the temporary skills would have been a huge pitfall."
Thinking about not obtaining a supporting role identity, he would have been directly hit by the world-ending calamity. "There's no way I could have been truly and honestly arranged by the other side, right?"
"How can I cash in these more than two thousand points of opportunity?" After recalling the skills, Qin Muye also discovered the pitfall of these three temporary skills, as they all emphasized the protagonist's cause and effect. Since the new protagonist hadn't been found yet, Qin Muye naturally had no cause and effect.
Since there was no cause and effect, how could it take effect?
It was like Qin Muye was trying to fleece sheep, but there were no sheep, so he naturally couldn't fleece anything.
Therefore, if he wanted to cash in, he had to find the sheep to fleece the wool from.
"Moreover, if I really found the protagonist and cashed in these more than two thousand points of opportunity, wouldn't I have doomed the protagonist?"
Qin Muye knew that these things didn't just come into being out of nowhere; they could only be cashed in through the protagonist's aura, which was like drawing on the protagonist's account.
If cashed in directly, the protagonist's aura would likely become negative by more than two thousand, far worse than Xiao Fan's protagonist aura, which was already negative.
Such opportunities, Qin Muye definitely wouldn't keep for himself but would give them to the protagonist as accumulated opportunities.
Thus, the protagonist's aura would become negative by more than four thousand, while his accumulated opportunities would naturally be positive by four thousand.
A protagonist aura negative by more than a thousand was already close to failure, let alone negative by more than four thousand, which could mean being run over by a car as soon as one stepped out the door.
"The opportunity accumulation is indeed easy to farm, but isn't it a bit too much of a burden on the protagonist?"
Although he hadn't thought that giving opportunities would send the protagonist to his death, if accumulated too much, it was indeed easy to die.
This was also with the protagonist aura, switching to another person with a negative luck of more than a hundred would probably not be too far from death.
But ordinary people wouldn't encounter such a situation, because Qin Muye could have such an operation solely due to the three temporary skills given by Lord Genesis. Without these three temporary skills, giving opportunities would truly just be giving opportunities, not fleece at all.
"Even if the protagonist is rather indifferent, I'm worried that if the opportunity accumulation becomes too much, what would I do?"
He was indeed a supporting role, but in terms of identity, it was actually just a temporary skill, not a fixed identity. When the protagonist died a lot, it would be precisely at that moment that the protagonist would discover Qin Muye's peculiarity, and he would directly become the protagonist.
"So, can I accumulate opportunities myself?"
Compared to the ordinary protagonist, Qin Muye had one advantage: He wasn't afraid of the protagonist's aura luck becoming negative because he had the territory trait of shared fate. Unless this world could shake the entire Endless Abyss, no one could diminish his luck.
Even if he really did diminish it, he wasn't afraid because he could make up for it with the luck of other monsters. He had several billion monsters under his command, each with five points of luck. Although they couldn't actively increase Qin Muye's luck, when his luck turned negative, shared fate would redistribute and normalize the fluctuation.
On the contrary, Qin Muye could continuously use his three temporary skills to fleece wool. Anyway, once he left this world, these temporary skills would disappear.
He sighed, thinking of a devouring world, which could terrify an entire world.
"Thinking about it, becoming the protagonist could better fleece wool."
"The premise is that Lord Genesis doesn't change my identity and leaves the temporary skills."
He knew that the premise was that Lord Genesis didn't change his supporting role identity to a protagonist.
If it really did change, he would suffer, as the protagonist's identity was a huge pitfall, and where was the freedom of a supporting role's identity?
"So, I have to complete the protagonist-related experiments before this world pits me."
(End of Chapter)
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