I'm a villain, not a devil

Looking at the nameless body on the ground that looked exactly like Sean, for some reason, several people suddenly felt a chill behind them.

"This... Could it be that Sean has triggered something?" Mr. Shui swallowed his saliva. Somehow, he always felt an uncomfortable feeling lingering in his heart.

Lao Niu bravely took a step forward. At this time, the flesh and blood on the ground had melted away, leaving only a little bit. Under his gaze, the last bit of flesh and blood suddenly jumped up, as if coming alive, and jumped directly down to the immortal body at the bottom of the lake.

"What the hell?!"

With a scream, the little remaining flesh and blood jumped onto the arm of the torso, rushed to the nostrils in a few breaths, and then drilled straight in.

The body twitched abnormally.

The people who were surrounding them all took a step back. The timid Li Zi hid behind them. "It's a bit scary... But, those pieces of meat left behind just now, are they Sean's? How did the body get into the bottom of the lake... Did Sean trigger some hidden mission?"

Qiu Qingming frowned, "But, Master suddenly disappeared, as if he had died... I don't know if he is at the rebirth point... I don't know why, but I always feel like something is wrong."

Dan Tart patted him and said unhappily, "Don't scare me... Besides, this is just a game. Could it be that Sean could be possessed by the mission props in the game? That's nonsense."

Qiu Qingming glanced at everyone and then said, "Then I'll go back and check the rebirth point. If Master died directly, he should be resurrected there. You guys can stay here and look after this body. I don't have this mission anyway."

"Okay, go ahead."

After Qiu Qingming walked away, the rest of the people looked at the body that looked exactly like Sean's. Although flesh and blood had penetrated into it, after twitching a few times, nothing strange happened.

They felt a little relieved and checked the tasks on their respective panels.

"The mission has been completed. Please bring the mission props to the designated location to receive the reward."

The tasks of several people were the same. They looked at each other and then looked at the body on the ground.

"This is the only item for the mission. Do I have to take it with me?"

"Well, what if I don't bring it with me and don't give out the reward? But this game is too realistic. It looks like a corpse and looks just like Sean. It's creepy..."

"Okay, stop nagging me and let's go."

"What should we do when Qingming and Xiao En arrive?"

"Sean, you should have a mission, right? Forget it, just write something on the ground here. Anyway, the designated location is not far ahead."

The group left a message and then carried the immortal body at the bottom of the lake towards the next mission location.

There is no map on their system panel, but you can tell just by thinking, how big can the Novice Village be?

Sure enough, after walking for a while according to the instructions, they saw their destination.

"The faint shadows of the trees and the black hole shaped like a chessboard, that's over there, right?" shouted the leading Mr. Shui.

In front of them, the shadow of a giant tree was looming, and there was a chessboard-shaped black hole on the ground below. Even from a distance, one could see something wriggling on the chessboard.

The group quickened their pace, but when they got closer, the people in front of them showed expressions of disgust and disgust.

In the chessboard-shaped black hole, a large number of black nematodes were wriggling.

Dan Tart retched and said, "So disgusting, like a wire worm."

The old cow put down the body on its back and showed the same expression after looking over: "Really... Have you ever seen those documentaries about wild animals? Those bears who love to eat salmon have a lot of parasites in their bodies that can't be excreted. Sometimes they will come out from the back like this, dragging on the ground in large piles."

"Indeed... Hey, it's still alive and it's been squirming. No, I want to vomit." Li Zi walked to the side and started to dry heave.

No one in the group dared to watch anymore, and after Li Zi retched, they couldn't help but walk to the side and hold on to Shi Tou.

Everyone vomited at once.

Lao Niu wiped his mouth reluctantly and said weakly: "Oh my god, this game is too real... And why do we feel so disgusted when we see this? Ugh..."

Everyone found that after seeing this thing, they began to instinctively feel physically uncomfortable, as if there were a bunch of parasites in their stomachs.

Suddenly, the two girls screamed again: "What is this?!"

The others looked over and saw that in their vomit there was a lot of clumps of stuff that looked like human hair, and around it there were some broken leaves and the like.

They quickly lowered their heads and then realized that they were in the same situation.

Everyone was the same, vomiting a lot of disgusting stuff.

"Is this game so disgusting..."

Before I could finish my complaint, the system panel suddenly updated again.

"The mission has been completed, please collect your rewards."

Then they saw the wriggling black nematodes falling out of the chessboard-shaped black hole one by one and crawling towards them.

There was a black nematode in front of each person, and everyone looked at each other in confusion.

"Such a disgusting thing is a reward?" Li Zi said in disbelief.

"who knows……"

Suddenly, the sharp-eyed Egg Tart shouted, "Look, those nematodes are avoiding what we spit out."

When everyone heard this, they looked and saw that, sure enough, all the nematodes avoided the vomit, especially the hair clumps and broken leaves, as if they were disgusted by that stuff as well.

Lao Niu said thoughtfully, "Do you remember the introduction when you entered the game? This world has been invaded by unknown pollution for a long time, and everyone living here cannot escape the fate of being polluted... Hey, do you think that the things we vomit are pollution? And although these nematodes are disgusting, they are actually the opposite of pollution, similar to, uh, purification worms?"

“Boss, your name is just…” Mr. Shui took a look at the black nematodes. The strange thing was that after he spit them out, the worms were no longer disgusting when he looked at them again.

He scratched his head. "According to the development of the game, as the protagonists, it is normal for us to have such a process... But this thing looks more like a parasite, more like pollution..."

"Well, according to the mission, this is our reward... a touch?"

Several people looked at each other, then encouraged each other and stretched out one of their hands.

The black nematode seemed to have finally received permission. It raised its body impatiently and then drilled into everyone's wrist.

The people who originally had different expressions suddenly stopped where they were. Their expressions gradually became dull, and for some reason, a little man whose face could not be seen appeared in their pupils.

A gentle breeze blew through the oasis, and a strong smell of decay filled the air.

The originally vague shadow of the tree began to become solid. A hole opened in the center of the trunk, and foul-smelling thick water overflowed from the edge. Then, a black dove slowly walked out from inside.

There were long black nematodes trailing behind the pigeon's butt, just like a bear that couldn't get rid of parasites.

The bird's beak slowly opened and a contented sigh seemed to come out of its belly.

Immediately afterwards, a figure slowly walked out of the huge bird's beak and stretched out a horribly shriveled arm.

"great……"

Long and satisfied whispers echoed around, and the studio members who were "beta testers" raised their heads stiffly and looked devoutly at the pigeon and the figure.

"Mother, your resuscitation...will always be the same...unchanged..."

In the distance, the air fluctuated slightly. A boy with a short haircut and broken eyebrows was watching all this calmly in a world of shadows.

……

"Fuck-"

Countless colors flashed on a thick branch, but its outline always maintained a dull emerald green. Sounds similar to electric currents continued to ring in the etheric layer, all because of the whipping of this branch.

Even if you don't experience it yourself, you can feel the terrible energy of the branches whipping just by watching, and even the surrounding etheric layer is stirred into an oil painting.

Sean dodged a blast of energy lightly, and the ether creature behind him that was unfortunately hit instantly turned into a green spot of light and dissipated into the world.

Another energy bombardment came, and after dodging it again, Sean's eyes showed a hint of weirdness.

If this branch was attacking him, he would probably be covered with wounds by now. Yes, even an extremely strong etheric body like his could hardly resist these attacks, especially since this was the etheric layer. Any injury to the etheric body would cause huge damage.

However, this attack was not aimed at Sean, he was just dodging the aftermath.

In the center of the lush tree canopy, a huge branch was like a small square. In the air above the square, a huge pigeon was circling rapidly, and the branch was chasing and hitting the pigeon.

Sean had just climbed to the center of the tree canopy when he was attacked by the pigeon. He was surprised to find that the appearance of this pigeon was almost the same as the Black Pigeon Prison, except that its size was several times smaller.

Almost in an instant, Sean concluded that this pigeon was the subconscious of the Black Pigeon Prison in the etheric layer, but it was solidified into its current appearance by some kind of mental force.

Just as Sean was about to fight back, the branch stretched out from the center of the lush tree canopy and began to attack the pigeon frantically.

The two of them, one fleeing and the other chasing, have evolved into the current situation.

"Master Saint Three, you are about to be out of my control." Noah kept warning.

Sean just shook his head and looked across.

There is the deepest part of the tree canopy. An area with a color that is obviously different from the rest of the tree trunk is hidden behind the leaves, like a gate.

"That's weird. If this pigeon is the guard here, why would the original body it is supposed to be protecting attack it..."

Sean tried to take a step forward, but the pigeon made a silent cry and turned its wings to attack again.

But how could the branch that had been following it let it go? As soon as the pigeon changed its angle, the branch lashed out fiercely, and this time it hit the pigeon for real. Energy fluctuations dissipated wildly, and the pigeon's feathers scattered all over the sky, and then turned into various energy flows and merged into the entire etheric layer.

“This branch is really helping me…”

Sean frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment, and then ran straight into the depths of the tree canopy.

The pigeon tried to stop him again, but the branch immediately moved above Sean, whipping the pigeon.

Sean's speed increased, and finally, he ran deep into the tree canopy, and the abnormal area was right in front of him.

He turned his head and saw that the pigeon was staring at him unwillingly, but the branch was still chasing and whipping it.

Is it okay to smoke like this?

Sean raised his eyebrows slightly, then rushed into the area ahead.

Suddenly, the strange feeling of weightlessness in the etheric layer disappeared instantly, and he stepped on flat ground.

Sean looked up and saw in front of him the main control room of the real shelter.

Countless branches stretched out from the sphere that symbolized the core of the shelter, as if it was a seed, and the plants in the seed had already taken root and sprouted.

At the very top, fruits have already grown, and they are so bright that they hurt people's eyes.

It was the tree heart that Sean had already absorbed two of!

Looking at this scene, Sean murmured, "Sure enough, the one parasitizing the shelter system... is the World Tree."

Yes, the World Tree.

Sean has always wondered why his friends' memories were tampered with, remade into new consciousnesses, and then brought into this world through human cloning devices.

More importantly, I should be the only one in this world who possesses those memories. How were they "reproduced"?

Sean knew very well that those were not the friends he really knew. They were just tools and copies.

However, the experience on Survivor Mountain reminded Sean.

The consciousness of these friends of his exists not only in himself, but also in those special proliferations that have been contaminated.

Qiu Qingming was the creator of the Mountain of Survivors. In the end, his remaining will was regarded as a gaze from outside the universe, which polluted the Mountain of Survivors and eventually formed a special proliferation, which also retained some of Qiu Qingming's personal characteristics.

Since Qiu Qingming's will will be preserved in this way, what about others? What about other people who also created this world?

There is more than one special proliferation...

Originally, according to this line of thought, the person who caused all this might be the Id Cult, which has the most special proliferation, but Sean thought about it and felt that there seemed to be another existence that could react more instinctively to the special proliferation of this world.

The World Tree is recovering.

In the history of the Empire and in the records of the Tree People, the World Tree is called Mother, and is also called an omnipotent being. She is connected to the deepest origin of this world and can sense all energy changes in the world.

However, what Sean still didn't quite understand was why the World Tree came up with all this... There were always things that didn't make sense...

Sean walked over.

Then, the large screen that was closely integrated with the tree trunk suddenly flickered.

A line of words seemed to be struggling to come out, and finally, it succeeded.

"Welcome back."

"Father."