Starting From Zero

Chapter 69 The Truth of Human Nature

Chapter 69 The truth of human nature

"Okay, I'll take you to the next boss." Xiaoxue began to move towards the last hall.

We followed Xiaoxue into the main hall, and the surroundings were decorated with splendor and splendor as we walked. Judging from this posture, the next boss is likely to be a humanoid monster like a king. Normally, only humans like to make their palaces so splendor and splendor.

After walking nearly 200 meters of corridors, we finally arrived at the main hall. All of us were stunned for a moment. What greeted us was indeed a strange person, but this was not at all the kind of king with a sword hanging on his waist who looked like a paladin as we originally thought, but a king in a princess dress with the same length of golden hair trailing behind her. 'The curly-haired little princess.

"You are finally here!" The little princess's voice has not changed yet, and her sweet childlike voice gives people a very innocent and cute feeling.

"Do you know we are coming?" Although she looks like a little princess, appearances can be deceiving. She knows we are coming, which means she is still a normal boss.

"Of course I know!" The little princess happily turned around and ran back to her huge throne.

I was about to continue asking, but Xiaoxue answered my question first. "As the Earth Mother Goddess, there is nothing she doesn't know unless you fly into the sky!"

"She is the Mother of the Earth?" All of us almost bit our tongues. How could this innocent little princess in front of us be the Mother of the Earth who is superior to all gods! The status of Mother Earth in Western mythology is somewhat similar to the concept of heaven and earth in Chinese Taoism. She is transcendent to everything, and even the gods must pay homage to her!

"Ask a question!" I asked Xiaoxue in a low voice. "What level is she?"

"Same as your dragon, it is an absolute boss exceeding level 1,000. However, the difference is that your dragon used the crown on its head to surpass the thousand-level beast, while our Earth Mother God surpassed this level by herself. !”

"I'm dizzy! Then let's just give up!" I shouted quickly. "Last time we had a fight with China's over-thousand-level boss Dragon God. He knocked me down dozens of levels in one breath. It's not fun to stand there and die dozens of times in a row!"

This time, the Earth Mother Goddess answered: "I didn't say I wanted to duel with you! Besides, I don't know any attack magic, and my combat effectiveness is almost zero!"

"I don't believe it! No one will believe that the over-level 1000 Earth Mother Goddess will be a boss with no attack power!" Jin Coin stood next to me and said.

"I didn't say that you must believe it. If you don't believe it, just don't believe it!" The Mother Earth kept her usual smile. As a super god, her transcendent status allowed her to take everything very lightly. "The test I gave you does not require hands-on. You have already demonstrated what you have before coming here. In the volcano you fully demonstrated your destructive power, on the grassland you demonstrated your speed, and in front of the Odin statue you demonstrated your means. .I have seen all this. To be honest, I don’t like your destructive ability. My ability lies in creation. Your destructive power and my creative power are not the same thing, so there is no need for me to test these things of yours. .The test I need is some very simple questions, you can think of it as a psychological test."

Hongyue came up from behind and whispered to me: "Don't you know how to catch a demon pet? Can you subdue her? This is the best! There are not many demon pets who are good at using the power of creation!"

The Mother Goddess of Earth suddenly said: "You don't have to whisper, I can understand anything you say. The earth is my child. As long as you stand on the earth, I can know what you are doing! Besides, I don't mind you either." You are just innocent children, and your mother will not blame innocent children for any behavior you do!"

These words are so powerful. Under normal circumstances, anyone would be immediately conquered by the speaker, but now these words are spoken by a child who looks only 8 years old! This huge contrast is really hard to accept!

As if she knew everything, the Earth Mother Goddess suddenly spoke again: "Don't be confused. My body is just an image. I can be any image as long as I want. The body is just a container, and the soul is the only criterion for determining the level of life!" "

"I……"

"If you have any questions, please wait a moment. After you answer my questions first, I will answer your questions. Okay, don't let us waste time. Now let's start your first question." Mother Earth waved her hand. Suddenly the surrounding environment changed, the palace disappeared, and I stood alone next to a village.

"Destroy this monster village. Don't leave any survivors. Start the time now. If you complete it within thirty minutes, you will pass!" The voice of Mother Earth came from the sky, sounding a bit distant and unreal.

Since it was a mission to eliminate the village, I drew the Dragon King Sword and approached the village. Before entering the village, several tall and thick monsters rushed up. Without hesitation, he waved the Dragon King Sword, and the Flying Dragon Sword flew neatly. To my surprise, these guys were useless, and they all fell down with one strike of the sword.

I walked over the monster's body and walked toward the village. Suddenly my feet sank, and a monster hugged one of my legs tightly. I turned around and looked at the monster with a hole in its stomach and its intestines flowing all over the floor. It wasn't until now that I noticed that these monsters actually look very much like humans. They all have limbs like humans, but the difference is that the monster's limbs are thicker. The monsters all have big heads, and their faces obviously have the same organs as humans, such as eyes and noses, but their faces look like they have many sarcomas piled together, making them look as disgusting as possible.

The monster was obviously dying, but he wouldn't let go. I turned around and gave him a blow to end his pain. If I was dragging my intestines on the ground, I would rather someone else gave me a break.

After dealing with this monster, I continued to run towards the village, but suddenly more monsters ran out. They were holding sickles, hoes and brooms in their hands. Some monsters still had fragments of clothes on them, but now only rags were left of those clothes.

I have now discovered that something is wrong with the situation. These do not look like monsters, but rather like villagers! Just when I was hesitating, the voice of Mother Earth sounded. "Your time is limited, and there are a lot of them. If you don't hurry up, you won't be able to complete the mission in time!" I looked at the monsters holding hoes and shovels in front of me. Although they stood in a row to confront me, I could see from their eyes Only one emotion can be seen in Fear!

I hesitated for 30 seconds and finally spoke. "Can you speak?" I said while gesturing with my hands.

A monster came out tremblingly, and his voice was very old. If not all monsters were like this, then he was indeed very old. "Yes! I can!"

"What are you..." I thought for a long time before deciding what adjective to use. "biology?"

"We are human beings!" The old man suddenly cried and fell to his knees. "We are human beings!"

"Are you human?" What surprised me was nothing else but that I guessed it right. These are not monsters at all. I suddenly realized something and turned around to look at the monsters still lying at the entrance of the village. These were civilians, and I actually killed 7 of them casually!

"Dad!" The little girl's altered cry came from the crowd, and a short little monster rushed out of the crowd. After rushing in front of me, she stopped, slowly moved to the side, and finally passed me beside the wall. As soon as she passed me, she immediately threw herself on a corpse lying on the ground and cried bitterly. I now know what it means to be tragic. The little girl’s cries make people feel uncomfortable. I have only seen this scene in materials about the Japanese invasion of China. However, now this tragedy is happening in front of me. The murderer is still me. Own!

The little girl cried on her father's body for a while and suddenly stood up and looked at me. She wiped away the two streaks of dark green liquid on her ugly, severely deformed face. They were probably tears! She stared at me with hateful eyes, and suddenly she began to look around, as if looking for something. I immediately knew what it was. She ran to a big tree at the edge of the village and pulled out a sickle from the tree. That was the scythe I deflected when I killed those monsters. It should have belonged to the little girl’s father just now!

The little girl holding the sickle tightly held the sickle and rushed towards me. I stared blankly at her without any defensive movements. Just when the little girl was about to rush in front of me, the Earth Mother suddenly appeared. She held the sickle that the little girl was holding in the air with one hand. She turned back and glared at me angrily. "Are you stupid? Why don't you hide? I know you are well equipped, but you will get hurt if you stand still!"

Under everyone's surprised eyes, I grabbed her neck with one hand and lifted her to the same height as me. "Why did you lie to me to kill these poor people who became like this for what reason?"

The Earth Mother struggled desperately in my hands. "You are crazy! This is your mission. This is an illusion. These are all fake. You kill them and I will calculate the time. It's that simple! Put me down!"

Not only did I not let her go, I even intensified the force. "I gave up this mission. I made a wrong decision. Now I will pay for this wrong decision!" After saying that, I suddenly increased my strength again, and the young Mother Earth was about to have its neck broken by me.

All the monsters around suddenly turned into coffee-colored soil and gradually softened and sank to the ground. The resistance in my hands also suddenly disappeared. I lost control and pinched the entire thing in my hands, but the splashed out Not blood but mud. The Earth Mother Goddess in my hand suddenly turned into a clay figure and fell apart.

After a tremor like water ripples, I returned to the hall. Mother Earth was still sitting on the high throne with a smile. There were no villages or monsters around me! "you……?"

"This is just an illusion. I said that my power is creation. I do not use the power of destruction, but I can create everything. What you see is an illusion manipulated by me. You have done a good job. You refused the mission and killed my double.”

"Aren't you angry?"

"Why should I be angry?"

"Although it's an illusion, if I kill your substitute, it means I intend to kill you!"

"But you didn't kill me, right? If you had just followed my stand's instructions and killed everyone in the village, then you would have been killed by my stand and dropped 10 levels. But you didn't follow the order, but Killed my stand-in. This shows that you are good at observing and dare to take responsibility. The most important point is that you know that they are civilians. After you killed someone by mistake, you did not commit suicide but killed my stand-in. This shows that you are not Even if you lack a sense of justice, you will not blindly blame all the faults on yourself. Even when the emotional fluctuations are the greatest, you still maintain your judgment. I am very satisfied. Your soul belongs to the best, a rare person who can do great things!"

"You tested others?"

The Earth Mother clapped her hands, and an opening suddenly opened in the ground. A stone platform rose up, with dozens of little Japanese lying neatly on it, and they were all motionless and looked like they had died. "I have to admit that they move faster than you!"

"Have they all passed the test just now?"

"Yes, they have all passed the test. There were 53 of them in total, 49 of them killed more than 200 people in the village without hesitation, including the little girl who cried for her father. 3 of them knew that the other party was a civilian. He tried to evade it by saying that it was none of his business but that I had lied to him, and in the end, one of the stand-ins actually tried to rape me!"

"By the way, you tested all the Japanese, what about my friend...?" Before I could finish speaking, the look in the eyes of the Earth Mother already let me know that they were behind me.

Turning around suddenly, I was dumbfounded. Lan Feng, Gold Coin, and Wu Qing all fell to the ground as motionless as Little Japan. Hong Yue closed her eyes, sweated profusely, and clenched her fists tightly, while Zi Yue looked around with a look of confusion. A random look showed that her hands were still stretched out, so she probably just strangled the Earth Mother Goddess's stand-in like me.

The Earth Mother Goddess smiled and said: "You guys are all pretty good. Although some people didn't complete the task, their performance was still okay. The girl named Jin Coin gave up the task as soon as she entered. She directly concluded that the illusion was false, so Refuse any experiment! That Qingwu was similar to Lan Feng. After learning that he had killed the wrong person, Lan Feng 'suicided', Qingqing stood still and let the girl kill him. That Miss Ziyue used exactly the same method as you This method made me think I was re-testing you!"

"What happened to Hongyue?"

"She didn't enter the village at all. She thought that entering the village would not end this illusion from the beginning, so she kept circling outside the village! I was trying to lure her back to the village, oh! She finally entered the village!"

We just watched Hongyue standing there with her brows frowning and her face full of anger. It seemed that she was also in a fierce mental struggle.

After another minute, Hongyue suddenly woke up. Mother Earth smiled and said: "Welcome back, you three have passed the test."

"Test?" Hongyue couldn't accept it. Ziyue quickly explained the situation to her.

"We passed the test, will you give us the certificate?"

"Of course!" The Earth Mother jumped down from her seat and gave us a sapphire on the seat behind her. "Take this and go back! By the way, there's also this!" Mother Earth handed me another very small crystal stone. "This is the key to space. I see you have a teleportation ring on your hand. Go back and find a goldsmith to embed the crystal into the ring. From now on, you can come and go to the Temple of the Earth Mother at will. And I allow you to borrow it in times of crisis. Part of my power, okay, you can leave!"

Xiaoxue ran over. "I want to go with you!"

Before I could say anything, the Mother Earth Goddess took the lead and said, "Don't you remember the commandments of the earth?"

Xiaoxue immediately lowered her head. "I know!" Then she turned to me and said: "You have to bring my handsome boy back to play often! Don't let us be separated in two places for a long time!"

"Okay, okay!" I nodded quickly, this sexy horse!

I finally left the Earth Mother Temple, and now it’s just me, Hongyue, and Ziyue! Qingqing and the others failed their mission and were directly teleported away and resurrected. I just asked, if you fail a mission and you lose the level, it is equivalent to dying once, but you will not lose the equipment. I just hope they don't resurrect in Japan's Resurrection Hall, otherwise it will be troublesome!

It was easy to find the way we came from on the hillside. Thanks to the extra gunpowder that was used to blast such a big hole, otherwise it would be really difficult to find a hole not much bigger than a rabbit hole in such a big place! After a lot of effort, we finally climbed back into the lava cave, but probably none of the little Japanese came back. We flew directly to the central island with the help of luck, and we took out three tokens and placed them in front of the door. "We got our stuff, can we open the door?"

There was a flash of light on the Door of Truth, and the three things underground disappeared at the same time. A huge system sound rang. "The Gate of Truth mission is completed, and the mission completion level is B level. The original wish was to obtain indestructible shipbuilding materials, but now it is simplified according to B and completion level. A crystallization scroll and a magic resistance scroll are rewarded. Crystallization Scroll It can crystallize something and turn it into strong armor. The magic resistance scroll can make something gain magic resistance and no longer be afraid of magic missiles or magic crystal cannon shells and other magic attacks."

We picked up the two scrolls that were brushed on the ground, and the door slowly opened, but we didn't dare to go out. Although the door is open, there is a blue curtain in the middle. With the door open, we cannot see what is going on outside. Will he be beaten up by n number of people as soon as he goes out?

After waiting for a while, Ziyue said: "I'm going out anyway. I'll go out to explore the way first. If there's no one, I'll call you out." After saying that, she jumped out. I wanted to stop her, but she moved too fast. , had no choice but to wait.

But we waited for a long time and there was no news. Not only did Ziyue not make any move, she didn't even give a notification. Really unable to wait any longer, Hongyue and I also jumped out, and ended up bumping into Ziyue. "Are you outside? Why didn't you say anything?"

After I jumped out, my eyes suddenly turned pitch black. The lava cave was originally illuminated red by the magma, but now we suddenly entered a dark world and we couldn't see clearly! Although I have night vision, the sudden darkness made even my night vision useless! The room was actually very dark, and there seemed to be no concept of time inside the Door of Truth. It was already past 11 o'clock in the night, and it was already dark outside, but it was still daytime inside the Door of Truth!

Ziyue said: "I'm so anxious, you don't know, this broken door cuts off all contact! I smashed the door for a long time to no avail, the door didn't even make a sound! I didn't dare to shout, for fear of attracting the Japanese ! I wanted to go in, but I found that the door is one-way, and you can’t get in when you come out! Moreover, the Tower of Truth restricts the chat function, and there is no way to use private chat in the tower!"

"I knew we would come out together!" Hongyue said as she climbed up the wall.

"what are you doing?"

"Let me see if there is an exit above. There must be someone watching outside the gate. Little Japan will definitely be guarding the door when he sees us entering."

"But why don't they stay in the tower?" Ziyue asked.

"It's very simple! With so many people in Little Japan, the Little Japan outside must have thought that we must have died inside. They kept people outside just to take care of their own people. Moreover, private chat is restricted in the tower, so they can't chat when they come in. Well, which player would stand here without chatting and waiting?"

"That's right!" Ziyue nodded. "Come down here! This kind of work is more convenient for a warrior. You, a mage, wait below!"

I pulled her back. "You all wait, I'll come!"

With the help of the magic dragon's wings, I easily flew to the top of the tower. As expected, there is an exit here, and it's very big! I looked outside and saw that there were only a dozen people outside the tower, but there was a large group of people running towards here not far away. It must be because the mission was over, and those who died inside were teleported out and resurrected, and they gathered people to stop us! It was a lot of fun now. Looking at the long team, it was estimated that there were no less than three thousand people!

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