The Creatures That We Are-Chapter 1202: Void

Within the Overlord realm, Dragon looked up at the hovering—or suspended, more accurately—Greed.

“Why...why...” Greed fell into a tremendous fear. It stemmed from a despair it could not run away from, as well as the fate it could not pry into. Anything Greed could not see or occupy terrified it.

Dragon lowered his head slightly, and Greed plummeted to the ground, prone at his feet.

A throne of gray mist emerged behind Dragon. He sat down and cocked his head, resting his chin on a hand as he surveyed the sinner before him. “Greed, you didn’t lose to me, but yourself.”

Greed shuddered in realization.

Yes, it had lost to its greed.

Had it remained hidden in fate, not even Dragon would be able to capture it. But it was greedy. It wanted everything. Nine Frost’s and Harvest Song’s fates weren’t enough. It coveted Chen Ying and Adept Horse, too. And it wasn’t enough for it to occupy those fates; it wanted to assimilate them.

So it emerged. So it got caught by Dragon.

But hadn’t Dragon gone after Pride? Why was he here? Was Pride dead? No, Greed would be the first to realize had Pride died.

Realization struck.

“That’s what happened...that’s what happened... Haha, is this human? This is human...”

Greed broke into hysterical laughter fueled by despair.

Dragon clapped and brought about the seventh judgment.

“Guixu.”

The world changed into an oppressive gray. Below was an ocean enveloped in mist. A vast abyss revealed itself suddenly. The ocean poured in along with the mist to form a circular waterfall. Water poured nonstop, yet the abyss would never be filled. It was bottomless and infinite.

It was Guixu, the void where everything in the world went in the end[1].

Greed was but a black dot above the abyss.

“No...no...”

Greed tried everything to fly upward, but an intangible force grappled it and yanked it down toward the abyss.

Greed let out an inhuman shriek. The black energy mist around it quickly expanded into a dark cloud. It was almost as big as the opening of the abyss and attempted to block it like a cork; it tried to physically block the hole to stop falling.

But it was impossible.

The black cloud could not resist the incredible suction from below. It writhed, struggled, screamed, but it still got torn into black threads and sucked into Guixu—like black stands of hair unceremoniously going down a drain.

Soon, the black energy dissipated, leaving only the red vertical eye stubbornly remaining afloat like a kite. It pushed itself to soar higher to escape, yet a black string insistently pulled it toward the darkness below.

It was the thread of Greed’s own fate.

“I will not cease to exist!”

“My existence will be forever!”

“I am fate!”

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The red eye shook. Countless eyes fell out, cascading and scattering in tens of thousands like an endless supply of duplicates. The overlapping images increased in size by tens of thousands of times, becoming large enough to fill the void once more.

A silent second later, data flowed out of the eyes, the manifestation of all the fates Greed had occupied. Countless figures, scenes, and fate slides burst out like someone was pulling rolls of films out of them. Everything plunged toward the abyss nonstop like rain.

“No...no...”

Finally, only one vertical eye remained.

It lacked substance or detail, merely a sketch of black lines. A thin thread connected one of its black eyelashes to Guixu.

That was Greed’s initial form. It couldn’t be simpler. It was merely a line of sight, a greedy thought.

With a simple tug, the eye scattered into a single line and slowly fell into the abyss.

The magnificent waterfall continued to pour down with no sign of slowing or stopping. Guixu would never be filled, yet everything would end up flowing into it—be it a small simple world or a great greedy heart.

The trial concluded.

...

Ox Room, underground sixth floor, May eighteenth, evening.

Nine Frost finally said, “Two contingency plans aren’t enough, Captain. I want another one.”

Gao Yang looked at him silently.

“Hold up!” Dr. Jia raised his voice. “Can you not? Are you trying to overwork me? I haven’t slept for two days!”

“Don’t worry, it’s a simple request,” Nine Frost promised.

“Fine!” Dr. Jia sat back down on the couch and hugged a pillow to his chest. “Just tell me.”

Nine Frost leveled Gao Yang with a solemn, determined stare.

“I’ll be honest, Captain. I know you’ve prepared something. My team is merely the lure, while Dragon is the one who will kill Greed.”

Gao Yang remained silent.

“That won’t work, Captain,” Nine Frost said.

“Because the lure isn’t attractive enough?” Dr. Jia asked.

Nine Frost shook his head. “Greed will go after anything and everything it can occupy. That is its weakness. But it’s also way too cunning to fall for a simple misdirection.”

He stared at Gao Yang. “Captain, the lure you’ve arranged for Greed is attractive, but it’s not believable enough.”

“Go on,” Gao Yang finally said.

Nine Frost nodded. “I’ve been thinking about it. You’re on the right track, but your plan needs refinement. I’ve come up with the necessary modification.”

1. It’s the same void as the one Gao Yang saw when he first made a wish. ☜