388: Various ways of dying

As soon as Tang Ku finished speaking, there was a sudden flash before his eyes, and Chang'an City instantly regained its vitality.

The soldier beside him, who had already died, had come back to life, but after merely glancing at the situation before him, he couldn't help but sigh and remained silent.

His expression was desolate, and he lacked any spirit, appearing just like the legendary living dead; he didn't even think to ask about the two strangers who had appeared nearby.

No, perhaps he had seen Tang Ku and his companion, but simply didn't want to ask.

Tang Ku became even more worried and led Yang Jian toward the Du Xin Domain; they moved quickly and reached the door within seconds.

Everything in the Du Xin Domain was as usual, but the pan tao tree in the courtyard was missing.

At this moment, Pigsy and the others were all looking outside, helpless and filled with bitterness!

"Master, you've finally come..."

Pigsy smiled bitterly and said, "We... we can't hold on much longer..."

Tang Ku suddenly remembered something and asked in surprise, "How long have you been here?"

"About three days, I suppose!"

Pigsy smiled bitterly, "Before this, we experienced being submerged in underground magma and frozen by extreme cold; we have had the entire city shattered by endless lightning from the sky and completely flooded by water... We have suffered through plagues where the whole city's population would sometimes rot and die, or go insane before finally dying completely... We've had plagues of snakes and infestations of rats..."

"In short, there were all kinds of disasters, everything you could imagine, and nothing was impossible... We solved one problem after another, but new ones quickly appeared... Chang'an City has been reset no less than a hundred times, and the resentment in the city has grown heavier and heavier. Until today, this moss-like organism appeared. It can drain the vitality of the living, making the entire city seem like a dead city... We have racked our brains and tried every method, but we haven't found the source of this thing, let alone destroyed it..."

Although a lot was said, it was concise enough for Tang Ku to instantly understand what had happened.

He and Yang Jian looked at each other; they found it hard to imagine what kind of Hell they had experienced during this time to end up looking so lifeless.

"Wait, you are all in the Du Xin Domain, so what about Your Majesty?"

Tang Ku suddenly asked.

"He is in the imperial palace... After all, the people in the palace experienced these events just like the commoners. Your Majesty still possesses his majesty and has the blessing of Luck, so the task of protecting the imperial palace can only be entrusted to him!"

Wu Zhen smiled bitterly, "But we have racked our brains trying to solve the disaster at hand, only to find that we don't even know what this thing is... Under such disasters, Chang'an City has already been reset ten times!"

Tang Ku curled his lips and then suddenly said, "Wait, I remember when you first arrived here, the time it took for the city to be destroyed by disaster and reset was shockingly short. Has it become longer now?"

"Every time we solve a disaster, the time until the next one lengthens. Conversely, if we cannot solve a disaster for a long time, this time will gradually shorten, and it might even revert to once every dozen seconds, or even every few seconds..."

It was rare for Sha Wujing to say so much, and he kept a worried, sorrowful expression while looking outside, "It doesn't matter for us, but these commoners are suffering. Perhaps they wish they were dead..."

Tang Ku was silent for a long time before saying, "Then when will this moss strike next?"

Pigsy spread his hands helplessly, "I haven't calculated it specifically, but at a rough estimate, it should be about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea!"

Tang Ku was startled and then frowned slightly, "The time for a cup of tea... hmm, in other words... soon?"

"That's right... soon!"

Pigsy smiled bitterly.

"There is no time to lose, True Lord. We need to quickly resolve this thing first, and then we can talk about the rest..."

As he spoke, Tang Ku narrowed his eyes slightly, and Spiritual Awareness Microscopic activated instantly, allowing his vision to enter a state where he could capture any detail or trace; for safety, he had already memorized the characteristics of that moss earlier.

Scanning with his eyes, he discovered starlike specks throughout the city, and there seemed to be a strange energy flowing faintly, which was very similar to the moss on the dead soldier from before.

"True Lord, please follow me..."

Following the direction of the traces, Tang Ku leaped onto the roof, looked around, narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked toward one of the houses.

That house was located in the innermost ring of Chang'an City, and it seemed to be...

"A pharmacy?"

Tang Ku narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "However, if it's just a simple virus leak, there's no reason why Pigsy and the others couldn't find it... This is strange... Hmm, regardless of that... True Lord, the culprit behind this thing is in this pharmacy. Let's go in and take a look!"

Yang Jian nodded and flew toward that house; Tang Ku did not dare to use his full strength, so he could only leap across the rooftops, and soon he arrived at the pharmacy as well.

As soon as they entered, they saw a terrifying scene.

It seemed to be the owner of the pharmacy, about fifty years old, with a white beard and white hair, his face quiet and peaceful... Well, his whole body was blue and purple, so it really couldn't be called peaceful, but his expression was smiling.

At this moment, he was hanging from a hemp rope about three feet off the ground, swinging back and forth like he was "on a swing"; judging by the situation, it was undoubtedly suicide!

And what was truly terrifying was that his body was covered in green, mushroom-like things; these things had burst through his skin and even pierced through his clothes, emerging from his body.

"Is this the source?"

Yang Jian couldn't help but frown slightly, "It doesn't seem hard to find, does it? It's obvious that this corpse is the source of the pollution!"

Tang Ku shook his head, thought for a moment, and said, "If this person is a commoner in Chang'an City, then he must have committed suicide to escape from this endless disaster... However, although this place is called a world, it is not a real world. In this world, except for the two of us who entered directly with our Physical Body, they all entered in the state of souls."

"That's right, which means..."

Yang Jian couldn't help thinking of something and said in shock, "Generally here, because they are souls, they are almost impossible to be killed, unless..."

"Unless it's suicide, and they really want to die!"

Tang Ku narrowed his eyes and said, "I think I know what that Darwin is trying to do... Heh, so he has turned the entire Chang'an City into a testing ground. Once this experiment is successful, then every country in the world will become fish on the chopping block!"

"Even so, I still don't understand why Marshal Tianpeng and the others stumbled on this level? Why couldn't they find this source?"

Yang Jian opened his right hand and formed a hand seal, which was none other than the Fire-Creating Transformation from the Seventy-Two Transformations; the corpse was instantly ignited and burned to ashes in the blink of an eye.

"Because someone doesn't want them to find the source!"

Recalling everything that had happened since he entered this place, he said with certainty.