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Chapter 904 - 436 The Truth of the "Fool" Game_2

Chapter 904: Chapter 436 The Truth of the "Fool" Game_2

The result was that while she enjoyed her luxurious life here, without a care in the world, her ancestors suffered alone in the mountains miles away, subsisting on wild vegetables and soil—just the thought filled her with immense heartache.

"Oh? Is that so..." The old man looked at Fuya with some surprise, then at Mu You beside her, and seemed to understand something, letting out a slight sigh of relief.

"I’m so sorry that my whimsy has caused you to come all this way..." Fuya said with guilt.

"Hehe, silly child, as long as you are happy, that’s all that matters. It’s no big deal for me to take a walk, besides, if these old arms and legs don’t move around, I’m afraid they might just rot in the ground..." The old man shook his head with a chuckle, then turned to Mu You and smiled, "Moreover, by coming out this time, I’ve also met an ’Admin’, so it’s not a loss at all. You don’t have to worry about it."

"Admin?" Fuya felt puzzled.

"Ahem... Elder, I have some questions to ask, if you don’t mind?" Mu You stood to one side, watching as the grandfather and granddaughter’s reunion came to a pause, and finally found time to speak up.

He had too many questions about the Star Spirit World and the Titan world. Now that he had finally met a friendly predecessor from the Fool lineage, he had to ask.

"Young man, I probably know what you’re going to ask. Unfortunately, I did not follow Sky City to Sky High, so I don’t know much," the old man said kindly, looking at Mu You with a smile, "Ask ahead, I’ll try my best to answer."

"Right."

Mu You nodded and, without being polite, immediately asked the question he wanted to know the most, "What exactly happened during the minor cataclysm in the Star Spirit World in the past? What did the Fools encounter in Sky High?"

The old man looked at Mu You with surprise, "You can ask about the minor cataclysm, which shows you already know quite a bit. Have you heard about the ’Great Cataclysm’?"

Mu You nodded.

"Then that simplifies things."

Only then did the old man continue, "Originally, the Fools desperately constructed Sky City to travel to Sky High, with the primary goal of preventing the next Great Cataclysm. After all, with the large-scale breaches in the walls of the Forgotten Land, they no longer had the ability to protect living beings through the cataclysm. Unfortunately, after they landed in Sky High, they encountered massive resistance from the ’Titans’, which nearly led to their extinction. This forced them to retreat back to the Star Spirit World..."

"And as the Fools returned, some Titans followed Sky City and descended into the Star Spirit World, causing a terrifying disaster there. That was the origin of the minor cataclysm."

"Titans... Are you referring to the Divine Race?" Mu You asked curiously. The Shadow Ghost founder’s diary mentioned the extinction of the Divine Race, and the Lamp God had also mentioned that the Divine Race was extinct.

Yet he had encountered living Titans in the Titan world, and now the old man’s statements indicated that the Fools encountered ’a lot’ of Titans in Sky High...

Mu You felt confused, so had the Divine Race really gone extinct or not?

"It is the Divine Race, yet it is not."

"Ah?" Mu You was taken aback.

The old man shook his head and explained, "These Titans possess the bodies of the Divine Race, but inside, they’ve changed into something else and can no longer be called the Divine Race."

"Changed into something else inside... You mean parasites?" Mu You was astonished.

"You could say that."

The old man nodded gravely, "I’ve heard from those Fools who returned from Sky High how they described slicing open the bodies of the hunted Titans, whose brains were filled with cotton-like substances, tentatively considered an unknown organism. It was this thing that controlled the thoughts and actions of the Titans, and even the most top-tier deities had difficulty avoiding it.

Moreover, this thing has an extremely strong reproduction capability and stealthiness. Once it enters a Titan’s body, it can clone a new one within days, then go on to occupy other Titans, and the entire process is silent, practically undetectable and unstoppable..."

"The Fools gave a name to this cotton-like substance, calling them ’Divine Beasts’. The former Divine Race was consumed by this thing, until they went extinct..."

"Divine Beasts..."

Mu You furrowed his brows, this thing sounded like it was specifically meant to counter the Divine Race, growing exponentially... and there was no way to stop it.

In movies, zombies were at least visibly abnormal, but this thing showed no signs at early infection, making defense impossible. No wonder the entire Divine Race was driven to extinction by this entity.

"But why would this thing also frighten the Fools so much?" Mu You asked again. If this entity specifically targeted the Divine Race, then the Fools didn’t seem to have much to worry about.

Unless...

"Because this creature is also capable of parasitizing Fools, to be more exact, all humanoid intelligent beings with Divinity are within its range of parasitism. Therefore, to it, all Fools who arrived in Sky High were nothing but walking prey," the old man said.

As expected!

Mu You was startled; Fools could also be parasitized, meaning the Fools were naturally countered by this entity!

Thinking about the fate of the Divine Race, one could imagine the situation that those Fools faced at that time in Sky High...

"I should feel fortunate that I did not follow Sky City to Sky High. Otherwise, I might have ended up just as tragically as those who were lucky enough to escape back here."

The old man said with a sigh, shaking his head, "Due to its silent infectious nature, the Fools had to carry out internal purges to protect themselves, which essentially meant slaughtering each other, killing all potential parasitized individuals. So, there was no need for the Titans to act; the Fools were already in chaos within their ranks."