LRAB Chapter 058 Dangerous Greed
Chapter 058 Dangerous Greed
"What's going on now?" Meng Shisan looked at his headless body raising his hand, his face full of surprise.
He couldn't sense the body's presence, but his commands could be clearly conveyed.
The key question is, what about his current physical body?
Seeing him looking at his new body as he spoke, Baozi was immediately taken aback.
He suddenly realized that the problem was not with Meng Shisan, but with Him.
After all, the physical body is ultimately composed of individual cells.
But it was He who orchestrated all of this.
It was He who split off countless new cells to form this entirely new physical body.
He too was bewildered by the sudden scene.
Looking back now, the root of all the problems becomes clear instantly.
Meng Shisan seemed to realize the problem as well. Staring blankly at his headless body, he finally said after a long while, "What should we do with this body?"
"Still keeping it at the bottom of the river?" Baozi thought for a moment and said, "If you drag it out now, it will be too conspicuous. Just leave it at the bottom of the river. Anyway, you can control it."
I didn't know much about the Burial Soul River before, so who knows what unexpected gains might come my way.
Although Baozi is knowledgeable about both ancient and modern times, the Burial River is indeed one of the few blind spots in his knowledge.
After all, He had not yet been born when the River of Burial Souls perished.
"But there are so many people in the Burial Soul River. Who knows if Wen Shixin and his guys can communicate with them? After all, Shen Mo can do it." Meng Shisan was still a little worried.
He had no way of dealing with the consciousnesses hidden in the Burial Soul River, and keeping this secret was too difficult.
"Are you stupid?" Baozi immediately said, "Why don't you just trap them all inside your body?"
At this moment, the river water is still carrying them and impacting your body, but they are powerless to leave. If you don't let them go, they can only remain trapped inside your body.
Moreover, with such a ready-made physical body, do you think they wouldn't have any ideas?
Who wouldn't want to possess a physical body that allows them to roam freely in the Burial Soul River?
It's no exaggeration to say that right now, many people are probably eyeing this body.
Not for any other reason than that this physical body is strong enough.
Do you think they would tell anyone about something like this?
Even if they couldn't keep this secret and Shen Mo found out, would he make a fuss?
Upon hearing what Baozi said, Meng Shisan immediately understood.
"Then what's the situation with my body?" Meng Shisan immediately asked.
Baozi shook his head: "It's hard to say. I suspect that I have also undergone some changes. As long as you are still conscious, I can cooperate with you to reconstruct a complete body."
He was talking about cooperation.
Indeed, He couldn't do it without Meng Shisan giving explicit instructions.
Even so, He was still extremely shocked.
After all, in the past, even if Meng Shisan gave explicit instructions, He couldn't do it.
"Alright, I'll ask for their opinions first." As he spoke, Meng Shisan shouted in his mind, "Don't hide anymore, I know that even now, there are still quite a few of you hiding in my mind."
Now I'm giving you a chance.
As you can see, there is a complete corpse over there, an incorruptible existence even in the Burial Soul River.
I don't care who you are or who has control over it, the body belongs to whoever has it, and don't let it all waste my time in my head.
Although I can't do anything about you guys for now, if I really asked, I reckon Beidouchen and Wen Shixin would be happy to help me.
After all, I'm more valuable than you, don't you agree?
He knew that when he had just reconstructed his body, many of these creatures must have been swept up by the river and might be hiding in his mind or various parts of his body.
He couldn't be bothered to beat around the bush with these guys anymore.
It's better to be straightforward.
While they were waiting for their reply, Meng Shisan asked Doubao, "If the person dies, can the code still live on?"
He genuinely couldn't understand this problem; if that were the case, just how chaotic would the world be?
"Theoretically speaking, when a person dies, the code loses its carrier and cannot continue to run," Baozi said after thinking for a moment. "However, as you know, the Burial Soul River is too special. It is different from the rivers you are used to. It can temporarily serve as a carrier for these codes that have lost their physical bodies."
On this point, I cannot explain either.
"Is there any way to kill them completely?" Meng Shisan asked again.
Baozi shook his head: "I don't know, at least not in the Burial Soul River. There is a way to leave the Burial Soul River, but the current situation is that you can't catch them, so how can you bring them out of the Burial Soul River?"
"Hey, this doesn't look like a river at all. How is it any different from the River Styx I remember?" Meng Shisan's eyes lit up as soon as he finished speaking. "Could this be the prototype of the River Styx?"
"That's not wrong," Baozi said. "The Styx River did indeed originate from the River of Burial Souls, but the Styx River cannot represent the River of Burial Souls."
"Wait, so that means you already knew all this when we came last time?" Meng Shisan suddenly realized this and immediately asked, "Why didn't you say anything last time?"
Upon hearing this, Baozi immediately shut up, too lazy to pay him any attention.
It was at this moment that a voice finally came to Meng Shisan's mind.
"Aren't you worried that we'll expose all of this?"
This was an extremely unfamiliar voice; at least Meng Shisan was certain that he had never seen this person before in his lifetime.
Because the voice was so distinctive and very old, you could tell from the voice alone that he was older than the old guys at the base.
"It doesn't matter, it's your business what you want to do," Meng Shisan said casually. "But I must remind you, there's probably not another body like this in the entire Burial Soul River. Are you sure you want more people to know?"
Putting everything else aside, if Shen Mo found out, could you possibly win against Him?
As soon as he said that, his mind went quiet again.
He just couldn't see them. If he could see these things, he would see that each water droplet looked like a person curled up inside.
They all looked at him with horror, then at the headless body hanging in the river with excitement.
No one knows the true value of this physical body better than they do.
As for Meng Shisan, they really didn't want to provoke him at the moment.
The fact that Meng Shisan had suddenly conjured a physical body out of thin air had truly terrified everyone.
"Let me out," someone else said at that moment.
Clearly, he was tempted.
Moreover, seeing countless people heading towards that body, he was genuinely afraid that if he arrived too late, he wouldn't even get a sip of the soup.
More importantly, in Meng Shisan's mind, they could only occupy a small corner at most. It would be too difficult for them to compete with him for control of the body in Meng Shisan's territory.
Yang Qi and his team had already proven this point before.
Instead of doing that, why not take a chance?
Of course, this is also because they didn't know that Meng Shisan could actually control that headless body; otherwise, it's hard to say what they would have done.
"Okay." Seeing that someone was interested, Meng Shisan's head started to crack again.
Meng Shisan simply said lightly, "This is the last chance I'm giving you. If you're still unwilling to leave my mind, don't blame me for being unethical later."
"I might lack the methods to deal with you, but Shen Mo and Wen Shixin certainly have plenty."
Despite being persuaded to stay, Meng Shisan had no intention of being polite to them anymore, not even to his own father.
"Let's go, let's all go." In an instant, countless voices chattered in Meng Shisan's mind like a bustling marketplace.
Meng Shisan didn't pay them any more attention.
He knew that even at this point, there would definitely be people who stayed behind.
After all, human greed is limitless.
There's nothing we can do about it.
After a while, Meng Shisan began to repair his head, and then he let go, and the headless corpse that he had been holding began to slowly sink.
He himself, however, surfaced.
"Damn, you're still alive! If you hadn't come out, I would have thought you were dead." Yang Jiu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Meng Shisan surface.
As for Er'er, she wasn't surprised. After all, she had already witnessed her father swimming in the Burial Soul River, and she had also gone down there herself, so she didn't find the Burial Soul River particularly scary.
"What's going on with this river?" someone asked anxiously.
Meng Shisan climbed up using the rope they had thrown down, and then said, "This river is a bit strange..."
After briefly explaining the principle of the Burial Soul River, Meng Shisan said, "I suspect that the consciousness of all the dead people is soaking in the Burial Soul River."
Even those guys who ran far away just now, their consciousness appeared in the Burial Soul River.
This river is very strange; don't come here unless absolutely necessary.
"No wonder people or objects that fall in are instantly torn to pieces. It seems all the river water is simultaneously squeezing out the foreign object?" At this point, Yang Jiu asked in surprise, "Then how did you survive?"
"Do you think I'm just an ordinary person?" Meng Shisan glared at him. "Don't even try to compare yourself to me. I can easily survive for over eighty hours in the wasteland. Can you do that?"
I can easily overturn the base's structure, can you?
With just one move, I forced out Wen Shixin, Bei Douchen, and Shen Mo. Can you do that?
How dare you compare yourself to me?
He didn't want to reveal too many of his secrets, and after some rambling and vague talk, everyone could only shake their heads in silence.
Indeed, everything Meng Shisan did seemed utterly absurd.
"I didn't expect you to get out so easily." Shen Mo's tone was also surprised. He knew that Meng Shisan was not afraid of the Burial Soul River, but he did not expect it to be so easy.
"Alright, stop jumping around." Meng Shisan was not polite to him at all. "Stop talking about sowing discord. Instead of wasting your time, why don't you worry about whether your clone in the bunker has been exposed?"
With only so many people in the field operations department, Liu Jiaming's methods are sufficient; he doesn't even need to find out exactly who it is, just a general range is enough.
"Liu Jiaming might already have made a move against you."
"Then you don't need to worry about it," Shen Mo said indifferently. "Even if they find out, so what? Do you think they can do anything about me?"
If they could really do that, Wen Shixin and his ilk would have been skinned alive long ago.
He wasn't really worried about Liu Jiaming.
Or rather, neither he, Bei Douchen, nor even Wen Shixin ever worried about their lives.
After all, beings like them are simply not something ordinary people can deal with.
"By the way, if I wanted to kill Wen Shixin, what would be a better way?"
Meng Shisan suddenly asked.
Upon hearing his question, Shen Mo immediately became interested, but quickly laughed and said, "You kid, you really want to deal with Wen Shixin? I think you want to deal with those guys in Jiangli, don't you?"
"What, they've discovered your secret and want to kill you to silence you?"
Shen Mo is so smart!
The question came to mind in just a moment.
He knew Meng Shisan's character all too well; if he really wanted to deal with Wen Shixin, he would ask him for advice.
"Sigh, you said it yourself, smart people die quickly, look at you..." Meng Shisan sighed.
That's exactly what he thought.
The methods that could kill Wen Shixin would be more than enough to deal with those guys in the river.
"Actually, killing them is simple," Shen Mo laughed. "As long as you can bring the river water out, without the river's protection and without a new body to carry them, they'll be done for once the river evaporates."
"Easier said than done," Yang Jiu said irritably. "What kind of container can take water from the river? The moment you try to draw it, it'll be crushed into pieces."
"Isn't this the 'Meng Shisan Yao' game?" Shen Mo continued to tempt him. "All you need to do is find a container, like a bucket, and put a stick in the middle of the bucket."
Meng Shisan simply scooped out the water with his hands; it didn't affect him anyway.
Meng Shisan also said that the water of the Burial Soul River is being squeezed towards the center; how could it possibly harm you while inside a bucket?
After he finished speaking, Baozi said with a serious expression, "His method really works!"
He is now very curious about the Burial Soul River. All the previous events have given him the illusion that the Burial Soul River can help him evolve.
Although He felt unwell when the river water tore at His body, He later discovered that He had undergone some indescribable change.
"You would be so kind?" Meng Shisan didn't believe it. Based on what he knew, Shen Mo was the one who wanted to destroy the world the most.
"Of course not," Shen Mo laughed. "But you know I have ulterior motives, do you think I'd tell you?"
Okay, everyone fell silent.
What this guy said makes absolutely no sense.
The problem is, after He said that, Meng Shisan was really tempted.
It wasn't simply about killing those things in the river. He knew they were invisible and intangible, and he wasn't sure which water molecule they were hiding in.
He genuinely wanted to take some of the water from the Burial Soul River.
After all, this thing is not just rare; in Meng Shisan's hands, it is also a powerful weapon.
Sometimes it can even be a lifesaver.
"Let's do it, collection point." After struggling for a while, Meng Shisan gritted his teeth and said.
Although I don't know what Shen Mo's intentions are, he definitely has some.