I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 501 - 501 500. Sludge Monster_1

Chapter 501: 500. Sludge Monster_1 Chapter 501: 500. Sludge Monster_1 The monster quickly took control of the girl’s limbs. Next, its sludge-like body covered the young girl, who convulsed and swiftly convulsed until her spasms turned into cramps. She let out a painful and piercing wail.

At that moment, all emotions turned into pain and burst forth from her throat.

The hoarse voice clearly came from her already torn throat. She was muttering cries that didn’t form coherent sentences, and without needing to understand, Lu Ban knew they must be curses and regrets.

The process lasted for ten minutes.

During those ten minutes, the girl remained conscious.

She was consumed like this, leaving nothing behind.

After consuming its prey, the monster quickly shrank and turned into a lump of rough dough.

It seemed something was being incubated within.

This was probably why this place was called the Incubation Room.

Lu Ban looked at the sludge-like monster and suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu.

It was like the flesh and blood that the tall tower in the town of Dried Water Town in Night Country had turned into.

Like the cement creature in the incubation tanks of Nanhua Private Renji Hospital.

And like the golden-furred large dog with flowers of sludge blooming in the Abandoned Capital Sewer.

Pfft—

The video suddenly shook, and from within that sludge-like monster, a sharp, insect-like leg reached out.

Almost at once, the sludge burst apart, and countless insects swarmed over the bed, the floor, and the walls.

These insects seemed to be commanded by something, scouting around everywhere.

Then, they seemed to find an exit and converged toward the safe-like container from which the creature had just wriggled out.

They quickly disappeared from sight.

“Experiment concluded, very successful,” someone said.

That was where the video ended.

Lu Ban watched some other videos, and almost all of them contained similar content.

In the videos, humans coldly fed their own kind to the monsters to be consumed and depart as insects.

It was meticulous like machinery on a pig slaughtering production line.

“…Consciousness fusion?”

Lu Ban thought carefully.

He could roughly confirm that the sludge monsters from his world, Night Country, and Abandoned Capital were the same kind, possibly at different stages of evolution.

The ones from Abandoned Capital were the most perfected, having mastered the ability to mimic humans or animals completely, and possessed their thoughts.

Those from Nanhua Private Renji Hospital were relatively primitive, but they had developed the ability to expand into foreign domains due to their integration with the building.

As for Night Country, Lu Ban felt that could be the monsters’ original form. However, considering the legends of Dried Water Town, even the monsters there might have come from a Foreign Domain.

The monsters here in the Wasteland seemed to be between those of Night Country and his own world.

After these monsters consumed a human, they would fuse with the human consciousness, acquiring the victim’s memories and thoughts. Therefore, it was not surprising that they could manifest a human’s awareness.

Even more terrifyingly, Lu Ban thought of a dreadful possibility.

What if the consciousness uploading discovered by the ancients was only wishful thinking?

What if they hadn’t succeeded in uploading human consciousness into these monsters to control them, but instead, the monsters pretended to be controlled by human consciousness, thus deceiving the humans who were already at their wit’s end?

Whether it was consciousness uploading, human transformation, or bridges, all of it could be a conspiracy.

Moreover, Lu Ban suspected that the initial disasters of the world, the insane seeds, might they have been sown by the Chosen by Gods from a Foreign Domain?

Facing the highly advanced technology of the old era humans of the Wasteland, a mere attack by monsters might have been ineffective. Only by using these manifold methods in combination, leading those humans to the answers step by step, might it be possible to utterly destroy this place.

Even after enduring such persecution, those afflicted with the crystallization disease had managed to sustain a civilization on this barren land for over a hundred years. If, when disaster struck, people had not been swept away by madness and despair but had instead united their efforts in search of a way out, perhaps the wasteland could have become a world in ruins yet still brimming with signs of life.

Those supreme and noble entities, the rulers of former days, naturally disdained to be part of such endeavours. But there were many civilizations in the Foreign Domain that were inherently expansive and aggressive, like Misty City and Dusk City, as well as regions like the Deep Sea that had already launched several wars in the Foreign Domain.

It’s like one day you look down at several ant colonies fighting chaotically below your window; since you don’t recognize any of them, you let them be. But if you’re in a bad mood one day, you might just pour a bucket of water on them and end it all.

If some of the ants managed to spell out your name, you might find it curious and observe them closely, perhaps even trying to pick up a few to examine them more carefully. But if you’re not careful, you might accidentally crush them.

But after watching these ants, you still can’t see anything special so you lose interest. The next day, you can no longer tell which group of ants spelled out your name. You step over them and might step on some, but it doesn’t matter.

Lu Ban left the hatchery, unsure of what the consequences would be if he told Shuangxin and the others about these things.

He arrived at the edge of the ruins, where the three indigenous inhabitants of the wasteland appeared to be in a daze, staring intently at the industrial park without uttering a word.

Night fell, and the four of them returned to Future City.

At the gate of the Ecological Park, the robot girl was waiting for their return.

“…I see, the electricity can’t be restored,”

Lin’s expression grew dim upon hearing about the condition of the industrial park from Lu Ban and the others.

Of course, Lu Ban had not revealed to these robots the true reason for the world’s destruction.

“But it’s okay, tomorrow marks the end of the year. Tonight, we will light a bonfire to welcome the new year. There’s a saying among humans, ‘Out with the old, in with the new.’ As long as the new year arrives, there will definitely be a solution.”

The robot girl displayed a warm smile, as sunny as her disposition.

“Mm.”

Shuangxin nodded, looking exhausted and frail.

After dinner, Lu Ban stepped outside into the windswept wasteland. He saw Shuangxin also gazing up at the starry sky.

“We need to compile what we’ve seen here and report back. Although we didn’t find any swarms this time, we’ve gathered information that’s even more valuable,”

Shuangxin said upon seeing Lu Ban.

“What do you plan to do with these robots?”

Lu Ban asked her.

At that moment, Lin was still in the Ecological Park, telling stories to Singer and Moment – tales that had been passed down through the Old World for a thousand years, originating from humanity’s earliest and most beautiful imaginations.

“I don’t know. Even if we could bring them back with us, the lack of energy would still render them unable to move eventually, and besides…”

Shuangxin hesitated.

Bringing Lin and the other robots back to the City-state would undoubtedly be telling them that the world they knew was destroyed, which seemed rather cold-hearted to Shuangxin.

When the humans of the former era chose Mutation, these man-made robots retained a human heart.

Shuangxin could not bring herself to see them merely as tools.

Lu Ban, however, had an idea.

He could actually let robots like Lin enter the [Mysterious Amusement Park] and become a part of its eerie realm, bringing them back to his own world.

But by doing so, Lin would be utterly contaminated by the Pollution and become one with the strangeness.

Whether this was good or bad for the robots, Lu Ban was not sure.

He was still pondering.

“Tomorrow we’ll return to the industrial park to look for any remaining data about the swarms. Since humans once controlled the swarms, there must surely be a way to contain them,”

Shuangxin added.

“I’ve come to understand that even if we are defective castoffs destined to be discarded, we still have the right to survive,”

“That is the reason we still exist here.”

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