“Neither, I am the final creation of this corpse’s owner, so I cannot interfere with this corpse, or something very troublesome will happen.”
The eyeball’s rotation speed increased, creating a subtle sense of misalignment between the entire space and Lin Ye.
“Then can I deal with this corpse?”
If the other party didn’t intervene, Lin Ye felt that with his current state, he should be able to find a way to handle the corpse.
“Dealing with the corpse will affect me, but if you’re willing to take the corpse’s core away, then I’ll allow you to handle it.”
The eyeball slowly closed, as if urging Lin Ye to respond quickly.
“Alright.”
Lin Ye agreed to the other party’s request because he didn’t want to alert that Abyssal Evil God, especially after gaining a superficial understanding of deities.
“…Then it’s all yours.”
The eyeball completely closed, seamlessly transforming back into the inner wall of the red wooden chest.
Lin Ye looked around and found that the red wooden chest was still in Catherine’s hands, while Catherine stood amidst tens of thousands of body fragments.
‘This is really… even a psychotic murderer wouldn’t dismember a body like this.’
Under normal conditions, Lin Ye wouldn’t have been able to observe those body fragments, but he was currently in a state of Mental Acceleration, and his thinking speed was still increasing. Tens of thousands of body fragments began to reassemble in his conscious world, gradually forming a whole.
“You can’t do it like this. If you really piece Him back together, you might find the corpse’s core part, but you’ll also be assimilated by the corpse and become another corpse.”
A massive, obese brain appeared above Lin Ye’s head. It perched on his scalp, its soft tendrils making contact with his skin.
“Are you that Card Creature?”
Lin Ye rarely encountered Card Creatures during missions. The penguin before had also appeared beside him in the form of Penguin Baby.
“I am now your external brain, so when you’re doing something only someone without a brain would do, I can help you think.”
The external brain wobbled its bulky body, flowing like liquid across Lin Ye’s head.
“…Are you implying I have no brain?”
Lin Ye really wanted to yank this thing off his head, but doing so might affect his Mental Acceleration state, so he restrained himself.
“Of course not, you are the smartest human in the world. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have come to deal with deity-related issues at just the fourth stage.”
The external brain replied without a hint of sarcasm.
“I’ll take that as a compliment. So, what do I do? Do you have a way to handle this?”
Since he needed the other party’s help, Lin Ye didn’t dwell on the details.
“I’m just an external brain; I can’t help you think of a solution, but I hope you can change your way of thinking. This current thought process isn’t very friendly to me.”
After saying this, the external brain returned to its previous silent state. Lin Ye pondered for a moment and then realized that those body fragments had turned into brains floating in the sky, each with a different structure. There seemed to be some connection between these structures.
Now he just needed to piece together tens of thousands of brains.
Piecing together brains was no easier than piecing together body fragments—in fact, the process was even more tedious. But it should be safer than handling the body parts.
Lin Ye didn’t know how much time had passed, but he finally assembled these brains into a complete, massive brain within his consciousness. By exploring the brain’s structure, he successfully located the corpse’s core part.
The problem now was what to do with that core part.
“Hey, are you sure you want to continue? After this… there’s no turning back.”
The brain writhed as it spoke, its body convulsing violently, spewing large amounts of white fluid.
“…Actually, my talent ability doesn’t really suit me. I’m the kind of person who almost never regrets things. I’ve always believed that making choices is very important, but if choices can be undone, everything loses its meaning. So I don’t like my talent ability… If the system gave me this ability because of that, then the system has a really twisted sense of humor.”
Lin Ye never regrets past choices because they are all part of who he is. That decision was made the first time he used his talent ability.
“…How troublesome. You are way too troublesome. Do whatever you want.”
The external brain vanished from Lin Ye’s head, but the Mental Acceleration didn’t stop. Instead, it sped up even more. Little Guardian guided Catherine toward the corpse’s core part. Massive amounts of flesh materials surged from the Flesh Vessels, and countless spiritual energy crystals shattered. An Alienated Body appeared beside Catherine. Influenced by the deity’s power, it was constantly destroyed by forces of different natures, but by replenishing active flesh materials and spiritual energy, the Alienated Body barely maintained a state of dynamic stability.
Lin Ye shifted into that Alienated Body. The surrounding deity flesh seemed to sense something and began to stir restlessly.
But before the deity’s corpse could go berserk, Lin Ye activated the World of Ashes. In the sky of that ashen world, there was a red sea, and deep within that ocean, the phantom of a building loomed faintly.
Lin Ye used the World of Ashes to cover the deity corpse’s core part. Attracted by the building’s phantom, the core part naturally sank into the depths of the red sea. Those body fragments followed the core, beginning to fall toward that deep crimson sky.
Only after all the fragments had vanished did Lin Ye close the World of Ashes. The Alienated Body instantly collapsed, and so did the space that had once stored the deity’s corpse.
“Huh? I’m…”
Catherine looked around in confusion. Previously, her senses had been filled only with Little Guardian’s figure, unable to comprehend anything else.
“It’s already been dealt with. If you don’t want to die here for no reason, you’d better go back before the portal completely collapses.”
Lin Ye didn’t immediately destroy the red wooden chest. His understanding of the deity’s corpse was too shallow to confirm whether the thing that sank into the red sea was the complete deity’s corpse.
If anything remained here, things would get very troublesome.
“Yes!”
Catherine rushed toward the portal. After experiencing all this, she could hardly be considered an ordinary person anymore.
Just before the portal completely collapsed, Catherine successfully passed through it, clutching the red wooden chest. After they passed through, the Leader immediately closed the portal, preventing the aftershocks of the spatial destruction from reaching this side.
“You succeeded?!”
The Leader didn’t know what had happened over there, but he noticed that the deity power had disappeared.
