Otherworldly Desert Dust-Chapter 577 - 532 Wu Hen’s Little Clone
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At the edge of the Land of Ashes, mountains and canyons gradually revealed themselves.
These mountains, like barriers splitting the scorching sunlight, and the canyons resembled fissures torn into the depths of the earth, made the entire land look like surging waves, invoking an ominous sensation.
In the rotting and cold corridors of the canyons, a Lost One was stepping forward towards the outside of the canyon, and upon finally climbing out of the gloomy and fearsome shadows, a ray of sunlight fell upon the exceedingly beautiful greenery ahead, where adorable blue sprites and butterflies fluttered amongst the colorful flowers, stirring a hint of rotation in the eyes of the Lost One, as if a soul that had drifted away was returning...
But this miracle only lasted a mere second.
Upon the swelling mountain, Wu Hen gazed distantly at this Lost One, like a Divine Envoy, guiding him towards the direction of a new reincarnation.
Ever since he had Tactile Awakening, he inadvertently acquired an interesting ability.
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That is, automatic path-finding.
His host, even if his soul had left it, could accurately move in the direction of the Nuwa God End, and although the Lost One was left with a mere shell, if this shell could return to the embrace of the Nuwa God End, it would also welcome a new birth.
The Lost One Wu Hen was watching at this moment was the youth named Yi Liang.
He was a barbarian from the fringe areas, despised by the people of Da Xuan and by chance became a handyman at the Huilin Academy. We used to wonder why he became lost under the Volcano Tree on his way back to his homeland...
Now Wu Hen understood that his homeland had disappeared.
Just like those people from Mo Chuan, they had lost their homelands. Not everyone possesses strong adaptive abilities, with no way back and no hope in sight, nor any expectations for their future, naturally, they would become lost in this land that can encroach at any time.
In a way, this feeling is fascinating, to gaze at the briefly settled self from a third-person perspective.
"Can you control him, like a god manipulates an avatar in the Mortal World?" Rat, lying on Wu Hen's shoulder, asked curiously.
They had come all the way from the Nuwa God End, and at this moment, Wu Hen had appeared near this host in the form of Desert Dust Life.
Gao Yu Yan and Wang Rui had not yet awakened from the simulation pods, especially Gao Yu Yan, who was probably still desperately looking for a way to meet up with Wu Hen. Taking a try-and-see approach, Wu Hen wanted to see if these outsiders would really strike at him.
"I can; I now have four modes of Perception. As long as it's within the range of my super sense, my perceptions can be shared with this host body, approximating remote control of an avatar, but the bodily sensation is not as immediate as when a soul enters..." Wu Hen said.
"More like a very precise marionette, right?" Rat said.
"Right." Wu Hen nodded.
After all, his powerful perception could also become a frightening mental invasion, eroding the thoughts of a living person.
Life receives information from the outside world through various organs. When Wu Hen imposes his own four senses onto a physical vessel, he essentially achieves "marionette" like manipulation.
So this is the feeling those otherworldly beings yearn for during Ascension, that transcendent sensation of using their Divine Power Laws to control the fates of everything, indeed unique and magical... It's like having enough power and status in today's society to choose any life you want, while also being able to destroy the lives of others.
"Then control him remotely for now. The guiding signal I've released has been out for some time, it should bring Wang Rui here, and he should have met up with Gao Yu Yan." Rat said.
As a Mechanical Beast, Rat had hundreds of ways to lure a Mechanical Beast Master.
"Fortunately, we've brought Wang Rui, who is very useful. Otherwise, I really wouldn't know how to lead Gao Yu Yan to this host body of mine." Wu Hen said.
"You seem to trust him quite a bit. You suspect Gao Yu Yan, so why don't you suspect Wang Rui?... Since outsiders have been confirmed to exist, then he could be any one of us, including our close ones. On the surface, they grew up with us, but actually, they might possess another soul, personality, and identity. They are just playing the roles of our kith and kin." Rat said.
"No matter if these outsiders come from higher dimensions or from our previous generation of Nuwa God End, they must feel superior in our world. As for Wang Rui, since I've known him, he's steadfastly acknowledged me as his boss. Have you ever seen any real-life player who'd become a subordinate to a game character, and for over a decade?" Wu Hen said.
"Haha, that guy Wang Rui just doesn't like to think, especially about things he finds uninteresting, which also reflects in his daily life as a kind of foolish simplicity. But in fact, when he focuses on something, his intelligence is quite astonishing." Rat said.
During the development of the Twelve Zodiac Beasts, Rat also had frequent interactions with Wang Rui, and naturally understood his nature.
Outsiders had indeed been confirmed, but for some reason, from Li Feng, Wu Hen and Rat themselves, none ever suspected Wang Rui, the insightful one... He's just too transparent and foolish.
"So what about Gao Yu Yan? Do you think she's an outsider?" Rat began to judge as well.
Rat could access the data of the vast majority of people in the Divine Realm, and with AI reading speeds, she could quickly browse through all the information about a person from birth.
She knew all of Gao Yu Yan's previous preferences, as well as when she came into contact with the otherworldly and when she became a Spirit Awakener. Although their family had not participated in the development of Douyi Star Palace, they had intricate connections with the inside staff of Douyi Star Palace, which made them one of the richest ones with the highest level of contact with Otherworldly Desert Dust in the world.
"I've had quite a bit of contact with her, and she doesn't give off that impression. I think that the outsiders among the navigators are, to some extent, isolated from us natives, so that they won't easily leave traces in our homeland," analyzed Wu Hen.
"Do you think she's more like Gao Huan's pawn?"
"Yes, at least recently she's been used," Wu Hen nodded.
Recalling Gao Yu Yan's recent rapid increase in strength, Wu Hen couldn't help but suspect that Gao Huan was behind it, empowering her.
"Being used? You believe she's unaware, it seems you have a quite good impression of her," Rat noticed Wu Hen's choice of words.
"I just hope she was only used by Gao Huan. After all, we've been friends for many years, we grew up together, and I'm a sentimental guy, the last thing I want is to harm her," Wu Hen said.
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By exploiting the warmth of the Land of Ashes' soil, many flowers that don't need much dew thrive upon the earth.
Wu Hen anchored his perception onto Yi Liang, beginning to remotely control him.
Yi Liang's vision, touch, hearing, and taste were all perfectly linked and simultaneously shared with Wu Hen's body hundreds of miles away, achieving a kind of soul-sharing in a certain sense.
"It's a pity that there's no scent at all, despite these fragrant blossoms all over the ground," Wu Hen still fully took over the body of this Lost One, even deliberately moving his own muscles to ensure complete synchronicity with zero delay.
"It's different from the awakening situation. I can't exhibit any ability in this body with shared perception, which means that right now, Yi Liang, this host's combat capability is..."
"Huh???"
"The combat power doesn't seem to be zero?"
"What's going on, how is it different from before I logged off?"
After Wu Hen's Tactile Awakening, he was able to leave a spiritual imprint, then letting his host find his own way back to the Nuwa God End.
What Wu Hen never expected was that the lost Yi Liang, after trekking through mountains and rivers, inadvertently passed through several Spirit Veins and absorbed the surrounding Spiritual Factors.
"I almost forgot, this guy has an innate Fire Spirit Contractual Body!"
"Could it be that half a piece of High-dimensional Yuan Youli did wonders, allowing my Breathing Skill to be shared with my host, and then, without any of my conscious thoughts, he began training on his own?"
"Isn't this the same as hanging up and leveling up? This Yi Liang has now outright evolved into a Little Fire God!"
Wu Hen found it astonishing himself.
After consuming that half-piece of High-dimensional Yuan You, Wu Hen's sense of taste directly evolved to the Fifth Rank, and all his perceptions were elevated to a new height. However, due to being busy, Wu Hen hadn't yet had the chance to analyze it thoroughly...
"No wonder the myth always says that immortals have incarnations in the Mortal World, and these incarnations often have exceptional talents, outshining others. Now looking at Yi Liang, isn't he just like an incarnation of myself in the Mortal World? Absorbing nature's spiritual energy directly like hacking, the pace of evolution is leaping bounds!"
"Heh heh, this is interesting. I don't need to cultivate anymore. Wake up a few more times, then let them cultivate on their own, and when they cultivate to the extreme, guide them back to the Divine Realm, and I will inherit the abilities they have learned."
"If my realm is high enough to differentiate into billions of different life incarnations, and then I can travel freely into these incarnations to experience their current lives, won't I become a four-dimensional being?"
Although Wu Hen currently only has one little incarnation, and this incarnation is not that "intelligent."
But many things are hardest from 0 to 1. Once there is 1, it can be continuously copied, repeated, stacked, and derived into infinity. When Wu Hen has an infinite number of incarnations, won't the entire universe become his incarnation?
Suddenly, Wu Hen's soul trembled, as if he realized something that made him shudder.
Is there a possibility, that there is already a high-dimensional "Wu Hen" experiencing the current self?
"Wu Hen, Gao Yu Yan and Wang Rui are coming over... eh, what's wrong with you, are you cold?" Rat's voice sounded in Wu Hen's ear.
"Oh, it's nothing, nothing, just a brain fart. They're coming over, right?" Wu Hen quickly shook his head, casting aside those fanciful thoughts, and focused on the issues he was about to face.
