"When the new moon rises, the evil shadow can appear, hiding in the dark behind until it kills you."
——One of the introductions to "Disgusting Shadow"
The creeping shadows squirmed their bodies, if that could be called "flesh."
They came closer, crawling, twisting, twitching, and following the rhythm of the gray mist, they approached the only life that remained rational.
But in the rising gray fog, something even more deadly lurks.
"bass!"
"Bang!"
“muuuuuuaaaaa!!!”
Broken metal, smashed armor, and the tiny teeth that were gnawing at the fist.
Lin Shuwen raised his leg and swung it up, kicking out a powerful and heavy whip kick at the side of the "disgusting shadow"'s head that was still protected by the helmet. The clicking sound of bones and metal brought out fine-toothed debris mixed with mucus. This was at least
The high horizontal kick that knocked down a building directly smashed the "disgusting shadow"'s body into pieces and dissipated in the gray mist.
While kicking, Lin Shuwen also used the fist that was bitten by the huge mouth on the "Nasty Shadow"'s body to send sharp black spines into its body, exploding at the same time as the blow.
However, less than a minute later, the sound of metal collision sounded again in the thick fog.
And, the sound of flowing blood.
"Now that I think about it, after today's twelve o'clock, it will be the first day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, which happens to be the day when the new moon phase appears... Tsk, everything was planned by her."
According to the records I know, ordinary summoners can only summon the incarnation of "Nauseous Shadow" when the new moon rises in the darkest night sky. In other words, under the moon phase of the new moon, the existence of "Nauseous Shadow" will
Gaining very powerful power to support existence, allowing it to be summoned by weak humans.
To put it simply, this new moon phase will greatly strengthen the power of the "disgusting shadow".
"Although it is a hybrid of "Jack the Ripper", it seems that just destroying the concept of Jack cannot eliminate it..."
Lin Shuwen shook off his dragon-shaped right hand, and the scales had already covered his whole body, except for his face which was too delicate to be covered.
The darkness beneath him has been linked to the nine dying survivors. According to common sense, as long as he leads them to escape from here, he will be victorious.
However, now that the "disgusting shadow" has not been effectively controlled, rashly rushing into the fog with these nine oil bottles is simply seeking death.
Let these survivors die.
"And if these things follow me into the streets, it won't be easy..."
Lin Shuwen looked up at the sky. The bright crescent moon had a touch of blood in his eyes, like the blood sacrifice moon on a hunting night.
It is now, eleven ten in the morning, at least five hours before dawn.
"Crack."
The sound of blood dripping suddenly appeared behind the person who was looking up. Lin Shuwen smiled, and sharp thorns exploded under the sight of the "shadow" below him. The fragments of the blade crossed his shoulders and scratched the side of his face.
A faint trace of blood appeared.
(You can almost understand it, right?)
"You want to say that this is a battle between "concepts"?"
The "thinking" in his mind caught Lin Shuwen's moment of confusion and began to explain the most important knowledge about this battle:
(This battle is essentially a conceptual duel. For example, the opponent's concept includes "gray fog invisibility" and "undetectable". When it wants to do this,
No matter what method you use, no matter how unreasonable, he can do it.)
"Since the "scalpel" in the concept can cut flesh with precision, even something that can break into pieces when I pinch it can hurt me when its blade touches my body."
Lin Shuwen casually picked up an example. He turned around and looked at the "disgusting shadow" behind him who was once again pierced and controlled by black thorns. The "dark" symbol began to condense between his eyebrows, and the dark scales were gradually stained with blood.
of bright red.
(It can't be swallowed. If you don't use the power of the same conceptual level as an alien god, you can't kill this guy.)
"But I don't have the power of an outer god, and besides, aren't my black spines essentially pierced by the principle of "exploding matter through swallowing"?"
Lin Shuwen smiled, staring at the blood dripping from the "Nauseous Shadow", and kept recalling the records about the "Nauseous Shadow" in his mind.
(Because this black thorn is an extension of your existence, and you are an "outer god" who has not yet fully awakened. Just like the attack from yourself can directly destroy his body when it is in chaos, when the concepts are of the same level,
The two can interact "in line with common sense".)
"But only on my black spines and my body, right?"
(There is also the "Shadow" sword. You have concluded the most advanced contract, and it is equivalent to a part of your existence.)
"Since I don't want to become an "outer god", except for these related ones, all supernatural abilities have no effect on it, not even the vision of "shadow"."
Under the explanation of "Si", Lin Shuwen understood the current situation. According to the knowledge that Teacher Xi Nian had given him: for concepts or laws, "killing" them like "human death" can only be erased.
According to their "personality", if they are possessed, they will kill the possessed person, and if they become law beasts, they will kill their entities in the material world.
However, because this "disgusting shadow" itself has the concepts of "Jack the Ripper": "not caught" and "no ending", it cannot be completely "killed" from the level of physical laws.
Lin Shuwen just wanted to use the power of devouring to erase its existence, but as "Si" said, powers that have not reached the "Outer God" level cannot work on "Nauseous Shadow".
So at present, it seems that I really have no way to deal with the "disgusting shadow".
(Note that your maximum control time is about fourteen to twenty minutes, which is the approximate time of a caesarean section ending with the baby being taken out.)
"But if he gives up the idea of attacking me and chooses to launch the concept of "not being caught"..."
(That is no longer possible, because you have seen his true face and destroyed his concept of "unidentified body". In order to maintain his own existence, he must kill you.)
"In other words, he is now "caught" by me."
Lin Shuwen raised the "Shadow" sword in his hand, pointed it at the "Nasty Shadow"'s lamprey-like face, and stabbed it hard!
"muuuuuu..."
The moaning sound is like a baby's cry, seeming to illustrate the sadness of being unable to be born.
Then, the "disgusting shadow" that was imprisoned to the point of being unable to move once again dissipated into the gray mist.
"One of the concepts that constitutes "Jack the Ripper" is "undetectable killing in the foggy night."
("Undetectable killing" that relies on the diffuse fog.)
"If I escape from this fog,"
"Jack the Ripper" would not be able to kill, because it goes against his core concept, and as long as he is unable to kill, he cannot kill me, and the concept of "unidentified body" will lose its last breath. As long as I
In this case, if you live until the sun rises, the two core concepts of "night action" and "new moon" will be destroyed at the same time, and this mixed "disgusting shadow" will collapse and "die."
The corners of Lin Shuwen's mouth turned into a check mark, as if he had found a way to break the situation.
(So is your primary goal clear now?)
The reminder of "thinking" moved Lin Shuwen's gaze to the nine "dark residents" who were close to 200 meters away. He looked past the monster's body and looked at the nine human beings who were still lying on the ground.
(You are currently unable to dispel the gray fog. The only way to achieve your goal is to escape. Since you are still alive, the concept of "Unidentified Body" of "Nasty Shadow" is still hanging by you, and he cannot carry out killings other than killing you.
, but this does not mean that other beings will not do that.)
"This is the rigidity of the concept. Without emotions, there is no option of "breaking the jar and smashing it". As long as I kill the other guys, wait for the people rescued by the moon to contact reinforcements..."
(If you escape from the fog again, the game will be over.)
In front of the floor-to-ceiling window, Naija, who had been watching all this, smiled bitterly, raised his hand, silently patted his chest twice, and admired the figure running toward the "Darkness Dwellers" outside the window with a sense of loss and anguish.
.
"Tonight, we failed."
The swollen girl behind her has returned to her human appearance. With pale skin, she looked up at the body in front of her and confirmed in shock:
""Brother" he... uh!"
The re-condensed body collapsed into pieces of flesh again. Naia stopped glancing at the avatar and answered her doubts:
"Brother has found a new way, a way to solve this problem using biological methods. Hum, if we hadn't left so much time for brother to think calmly, maybe we would have succeeded?"
"Well!"
The monster's wail sounded again, and the moment Naiya finished speaking, the swollen girl's body once again collapsed into disgusting pieces of flesh.
"If you didn't stand there stupidly, taking care of the happiness that I can only touch, and use those humans earlier... maybe you can sleep with your "brother" tonight..."
Naiya's tone was calm, but everyone could see that she was about to burst into anger.
"I planted the seeds of awakening for my brother, allowing him to gradually recall the power and joy of being an alien god. I was by his side, slowly occupying his heart, and downplaying his "human" and "external god" psychology.
The estrangement changed his understanding and gradually turned him into a real brother..."
She stretched out her hand to grasp, as if grasping the irrevocable future.
But those hands couldn't even grasp his figure outside the window.
"All of this should have been a bright future that could be seen at a glance...but because of you, this loser!"
"Ah...ah..."
The Swollen Girl let out the moans and begging sounds of an alien god. Naia turned around and was wrapped in blue-black butterflies. In the darkness of the moonlit night, only the appearance of a human could be vaguely seen.
She stared at the squirming avatar on the ground and laughed again:
"But we have no experience in working so hard for a living being, right?"