Chapter 630: Punishment is coming! The crystallization of spiritual power? The power of faith!
"Yin——"
After Riko shouted, a strange sound was heard in the sky above Nami Village, followed by a gust of wind, causing Zhou Qing, Dugu Bo, and Riko to feel an inexplicable chill, as if every cell was trembling in fear of the impending existence.
The mutants were trembling all over, their fur shaking, and they stopped making any noise, just standing there.
Only the pink mutant began to run out in panic.
But black air masses came with the wind and transformed into a sticky barrier covered with golden little eyes, wrapping the pink mutant body.
"Mah-ha-ha! Ha-ma-ma! Ma-ma-ha!"
The alien creature wrapped in it was extremely frightened and tears kept flowing down.
Black tentacles extended from the black barrier, hanging the alien body in mid-air and continuously taking out valuable things from the fat folds of its lower body.
A fist-sized piece of hematite, a patterned ceramic bowl, a pair of spoons carved with patterns... and a retractable robotic arm.
Although the collection of this alien is mostly useless garbage, it is much better than the things owned by other aliens, and many of them are of practical use in daily life.
"This is?"
Riko was stunned by this scene. It was not until the mutant's "family assets" were emptied that she came to her senses and asked the alarm clock gentleman beside her.
"Because you think the half-finished white flute in your hand is priceless. The rule of equivalent exchange believes that his behavior has destroyed the priceless treasure in your heart, so the liquidation began."
Gentleman Alarm Clock explained slowly, "Everything valuable on him will be stripped away and forcibly transformed into a special spiritual power crystal as compensation to you."
"The beings that are carrying out the reckoning are the souls of Namichi's children. In addition to being in the cave, they will also manifest forms visible to the naked eye during the reckoning process, but they are limited to the space created by Namichi. They cannot control people and objects outside of this space."
"Mm-ha!"
When all valuable objects on the pink mutant's body were stripped away, the liquidation was not yet over. The tentacles made of black liquid wrapped around its right arm and continued to tighten.
Wave!
Its right arm was broken, and red blood flowed out of it, but nothing was wasted and became part of the reckoning.
However, the rules of liquidation felt that this was not enough, and those black tentacles entangled the fur on the right side of its head, trying to tear it off.
"Wait! Can you spare him? Mithras is my friend, but it has no idea that Bai Di is the incarnation of Mithras... I don't want him to be punished so severely!" Riko has experienced life and death, but she doesn't want things to develop to this point.
"You can't defy the rules."
Gentleman Alarm Clock watched all this happen indifferently, "Besides, for us, if we can just die because of this, it might be the best option."
Zhou Qing raised his hand to touch the black substance, but found that he could not touch it at all, it was a tangible substance; he used his mental power to perceive it, and he could sense its shape, but he could not restrain it, just like a stream flowing over pebbles, he could sense its existence, but could not touch it at all, and could only flow through its surface.
This is not to say that mental power is ineffective. Just like a stream can grind angular stones into pebbles, a long period of scouring with mental power can also grind them into the shape you want, but it will take a little longer.
[It is somewhat similar to the "qi" in "scattered is qi"...]
Hiss!
A piece of fur on the head of the fluffy pink mutant was torn off, causing it to scream "Ma Ma Ha Ha" in pain, tears welling up in its eyes. Fortunately, the liquidation rule stopped hurting the "Ma Ma Ha Ha" and decomposed its flesh and blood, as well as the valuable items taken out of it.
In Zhou Qing's perception, these things were simply decomposed into particles at the microscopic level, but at the same time, thin white lines were pulled out and merged together.
"This is?"
Zhou Qing's eyes widened.
“The crystallization of spiritual power.”
Gentleman Alarm Clock said, "So-called valuable things are essentially things that people place their hopes, love, friendship and other emotions on. The existence of material things themselves has no value to the world itself, but it is human emotions that give them value."
"This spiritual power crystal is the sustenance of emotions. The method of use is also very simple. Just take it. It can make you have a beautiful dream in which your wishes come true. After waking up, you will be full of energy, which means that it can improve your spiritual power realm."
Dugu Bo frowned, finding it a little difficult to accept this abstract spiritual crystallization.
But in Zhou Qing's view, isn't this crystallization of spiritual power that embodies thoughts and emotions the power of faith?
The power of faith, as described in the original book, is a white silk thread, and as long as one is extremely pious to a certain person, this power will spontaneously condense.
It can be said that the power of faith is a supernatural power, as small as a firefly and as strong as the sun.
It is small because it is very easy to obtain this kind of energy. Compared with soul power, it still requires hard practice. As long as you can find a way to make people worship you from the bottom of their hearts, you can get the power of faith.
The difficulty lies in how to operate, solidify and utilize the power of faith.
Strong.
This is because this kind of power comes from the emotions of the heart. When everyone has the same belief, it can even help a person achieve godhood.
And the current spiritual power crystallization...
Compared to the power of faith that can help people achieve godhood, it should be just the crystallization of various emotions.
I just wonder if the ability to create this kind of crystallization of spiritual power is because the civilization 20,000 years ago had already developed to the level of studying the essence of the power of faith?
Or is it that after 20,000 years, Namichi, who used two Hearts of Dreams, somehow reached a certain state of harmony with the environment of the abyss ruins that was influenced by external rules, so that after she finally gave birth to such an inner world, she naturally possessed the ability to process the power of faith?
In the end, except for the mechanical arm, everything else was decomposed. Strands of white silk threads gathered into the spiritual power crystal and finally slowly floated into Riko's hands.
And the mechanical broken arm also floated next to Riko, waiting for her to reach out and take it.
Gentleman Alarm Clock said: "This mechanical arm should be something from the seventh floor. Only soul-guided machinery from there can break the rules of Nami Village."
Riko raised her hand and took the broken soul-guided mechanical arm. Then the black souls let go of the pink mutant and let it fall to the ground.
"Mahaha!"
Crystal clear tears kept flowing from its eye sockets, perhaps because of the pain, or perhaps because it was sad that its "treasures" had vanished.
Finally, it got up and burrowed into the group of mutants, disappearing without a trace, leaving only traces of blood and tears on the ground...
(End of this chapter)
