Baroye’s head exploded and his body swayed for a moment. Soon, another head sprouted from his neck, with smooth features and pitch-black as before.
“Beautiful miss, loyal Baroye is here to serve you and fulfill your wishes,” it said in a flattering tone.
“Don’t waste your energy,” Song Shiyi reminded. “Wish spirits cannot be killed here. They are something that neither lives nor dies. It’s best to ignore them.”
Through Isabella’s perspective, Lu Yao noticed that there was also a wish spirit next to Song Shiyi. It was also chattering incessantly, but he couldn’t hear what it was saying at all.
It seemed that each wish spirit corresponded to a person, and their conversations were closed off.
Similar to individual customer sales?
Lu Yao focused his attention on the crossover zone.
It was also nighttime here, with a faint mist lingering in the surroundings. The appearance of streets and green belts could still be seen, but there were some subtle differences in certain areas.
The street ahead looked relatively normal, but as it went further, the road surface would rise up, like a huge curl, curling all the way up to the sky.
There was a shared bicycle on Isabella’s right side, which was the most familiar means of transportation for Lu Yao. However, the wheels of this bicycle were collapsed, and the body trembled incessantly.
After a while, a palm-sized mini shared bicycle ran out from behind the bicycle. It wobbled and headed towards the street ahead.
The ground was covered with cracks, as if it would collapse if the weight exceeded a certain limit.
When Isabella stepped on it, the ground would sink and float.
The sky was filled with clouds, forming an equally-sized gray board. There were cracks and light between the gray boards, like an artificially created sky, giving a strange sense of foreign objects.
“This is how the crossover zone is,” Song Shiyi explained to Isabella. “The overlapping of different worlds makes some originally normal things become abnormal, intersecting and nesting with each other, forming a dynamic chaotic form.”
Lu Yao immediately understood this world between worlds.
Isn’t it just crossing dimensions?
After the crossover of two worlds, they intersect with each other, resulting in the current situation.
His years of gaming experience still had its uses.
The environment here was open and there were no attacking monsters around. There were no visible living things, except for Baroye who kept talking in his ear.
“Miss, do you know? This world is an extraordinary place. The so-called gods are just pets cultivated by this world. In other words, this place is like a divine ranch.”
“As long as they are continuously cultivated, there will always be some excellent specimens among the pets, right?”
“It’s the same here. Countless godlike beings have been born in this world, including many main gods. Some of them are quite outstanding, and they are used as consumables to impact the super-limit zone.”
…
It had to be said that the words of the wish spirit were extremely tempting.
Lu Yao didn’t know if what it said was true or false. But these explosive pieces of information quickly piqued his interest.
No.
Safety first.
He must treat everything it said as nonsense.
Dealing with the immortal wish spirits, there weren’t many methods other than enduring their incessant sales pitch.
Song Shiyi said that the committee had tried various methods, such as special earplugs, sound wave interference, and even neural blockades, but none of them worked.
The wish spirits seemed to be speaking, but in essence, they were a special form of information radiation. As long as a person was in the crossover zone, they couldn’t avoid the invasion of their information.
In other words, wish spirits were like a form of information entity. They constantly roamed and spread in the closed wasteland world until the day their theoretical energy was exhausted.
Based on this, Lu Yao had a suspicion.
The wish spirits were constantly trying to communicate with humans. Could it be that they wanted to interfere with humans and obtain the nutrients and materials they needed from them?
To obtain more information, Lu Yao instructed Isabella to activate the “Curse of True Sight.”
Before entering the crossover zone, he equipped Isabella with many items to deal with unforeseen circumstances.
In the pixel world of the low-dimensional space, the simulator would help players perceive various data. However, once they left the simulator and entered the real world, players would lose this ability.
Lu Yao wanted to try if the Curse of True Sight could make up for this gap. After all, Isabella had enough HP with the secret of life.
The Curse of True Sight was like a living tattoo, imprinted on Isabella’s body, invisible from the outside.
Isabella lost 500 HP, and an inverted “A” appeared in her field of vision.
Symbols appeared on Baroye’s body, densely nested with each other, like some kind of seal and barrier.
But under the Curse of True Sight, the chains formed by numerous symbols broke one by one, and after dispersing, they quickly recombined into a detailed data panel.
…
[Wish Spirit LV12] Baroye
HP: 266/266
MP: 133/133
Damage: 0
Defense: 0
Speed: 15
[Undead]
Possesses the ability to constantly resurrect for unknown reasons.
[Symbiote]
Exists in a symbiotic form, gaining additional benefits.
[Verbal Spirit]
Enhances its own spells through speech. The longer the speech, the greater the spell enhancement.
[Corridor of Ancient Wishes LV1]
[Exclusive Ability of Verbal Spirits]Creating an infinite illusionary world with magic, satisfying the deepest desires of the target, and trapping them in an endless corridor.
……
At this moment, the value of the “Curse of True Sight” was demonstrated.
The enigmatic wish spirits revealed their true forms under this god-level spell.
Lu Yao realized.
The wish spirits were indeed immortal, at least in this wasteland world.
They could coexist, and individuals could merge.
Then came the key to the wish spirits.
They kept chattering non-stop, not only to bewitch, but also to activate the “Word Spirit”.
Song Shiyi said that one should not stay in the cross-zone for too long, otherwise they would get lost. That was essentially the case.
The longer the wish spirits whispered in your ear, the stronger the effect of the Word Spirit. It was equivalent to a spell that grew infinitely over time, and in the end, no one could withstand it.
The “Corridor of Past Wishes” was the wish spirits’ trump card.
They used magic to fulfill the wishes of the wishers, making them indulge in it and unable to leave completely.
This ability was hard for ordinary people to resist.
However, the wish spirits also had their own limitations.
They had no direct combat ability and had to rely on the Word Spirit and the Corridor of Past Wishes to lure and lose outsiders. Strictly controlling the time spent in the cross-zone and not conversing with them was relatively safe.
It would be best to catch a wish spirit, as the information obtained would be the most complete.
As Lu Yao was pondering, Song Shiyi suddenly said, “Found one.”
A young man was sitting in the green belt ahead. He looked to be in his twenties, leaning against a twisting cypress tree, muttering something. A wish spirit was sitting next to the young man, and from a distance, they looked like two friends chatting.
Song Shiyi took out her phone and compared the features of the person in front of her.
“He’s one of the missing.”
A ring of stars appeared behind her, and a white cloth flew out of it. The cloth wrapped the young man into a mummy, immobilizing him instantly.
“Could you help me take him out and send him to a safe place? I’ll keep looking here.”
Isabella said, “I’ll stay, you take him out. I’m not familiar with the outside procedures.”
“That’s fine. Please wait for me for a moment, give me five minutes.”
Song Shiyi dragged the mummified man from the ground and temporarily retreated outside.
As soon as the female prosecutor disappeared, Isabella immediately started acting on Lu Yao’s orders.
First, she raised the “Image of the Skinner” in her hand and aimed it at the wish spirit who was persuading on the side.
The beastification ceremony began.
Baroye did not flee or dodge, still activating the Word Spirit. However, under the influence of the Image of the Skinner, the passionate and fast voice of the wish spirit gradually became slow and dull.
It worked.
Lu Yao’s spirits lifted.
Then, Isabella took out the “Weeping Amber” in her other hand and chanted, “Old people of the sea, forget, sleep.”
Under the drive of the spell, the amber extended countless syrup-like yellow soft limbs. It sealed the unresisting wish spirit in a light yellow solid, then shrank back into Isabella’s hand.
Arrest successful!
The spoils of war were in hand.
Just as Baroye left, another wish spirit crawled out from the ground crack.
“Hello, beautiful lady. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Cynthia, and I am honored to serve you. Do you have any wishes?”
Lu Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
As expected, the wish spirits were all competing for customers, and as soon as there was a vacancy, they would immediately fill it. They didn’t care about the disappearance of their own kind.
Ten minutes later, Song Shiyi returned.
She apologized, “That man had some problems, he was vomiting, bleeding from his mouth and nose… I gave him some basic first aid and checked him, so I was delayed. Little Ming is watching him now, waiting for the ambulance.”
Isabella nodded, “It’s okay.”
(End of Chapter)