Staring directly at the ancient gods for a whole year

#1993 - Mathematical Bliss (Part 32)

Suffering is coming!

“Darkness” descends again, and the “young man” has found his new suffering.

Under the decree, the light before Fu Qian's eyes couldn't even last for three seconds, and a different kind of suffering surged up.

It was obviously different from "Ecstasy", so even with experience, it was still difficult to dispel this light, requiring a new exploration.

But thinking on the bright side, it also means there's a new type of suffering experience, right?

Not to mention that he was figuring it out very quickly.

In the blink of an eye, his perception was once again destroyed by suffering, plunging him back into a self-made "black box", with no way out in sight.

For example, in the City of Ultimate Evil, they twice found people to physically kill him.

Or they could go through a higher Heaven and find the Gravedigger to nail his coffin shut.

In short, if there are some rules that his opponent must also follow, then gambling against these rules is equivalent to leveling the playing field, which is essentially beneficial to him.

So seemingly irrational behavior is actually due to professional competence.

And let's see if there is a matching reward.

… …

Pain, excruciating pain.

And it was different from the previous two times, it was a very pure physical pain.

In another long darkness, a new change began to appear—good news.

And Fu Qian immediately gave it a good review.

Very simple, he could actually feel his body, indicating that another kind of suffering was weakening.

Sure enough, just as Fu Qian was silently savoring it, and even judged that the pain came from the navel area, the second kind of suffering also began to dissipate little by little.

And this time there was no replacement to fill the void, it was a more natural way, so the dissipation was very slow.

After a longer time, Fu Qian finally realized that he had slightly recovered his perception.

[Sanity -3]

And the first thing that greeted him was a pleasant notification.

Not bad, it seems this is really the Third Heaven… As expected, I adhered to the truth.

Without saying a word, he deducted his sanity points. At that moment, Fu Qian was quite satisfied, and he struggled to open his eyes to look at the surrounding scenery—why does it still look like a coffin, and even one that's filled with water?

… …

Warm liquid, like water and oil, viscous and clear.

Compared to the previous times, the scene before him was undoubtedly a bit bizarre.

The first thing Fu Qian noticed was that his body seemed to be floating in something.

And looking closely, he could see that he was actually in a space even smaller than the previous coffin.

In contrast, the shape was more rounded, like an egg rather than something angular.

The outer shell of the egg itself was translucent, and he could faintly see some light outside, which shone in and seemed to be covered with blood vessels.

The vast majority of the space inside the egg was filled with a liquid, and almost all of his body except his head was immersed in it.

And that's not the most special thing. In addition to himself, there were dozens of tubular objects floating around in this liquid.

The first impression was like seaweed in the sea, but looking closely, he could see that they were creations of flesh and blood like himself and the worm egg, except that most of them had already dried up.

And one that wasn't so dry was being held in his left hand, its tip bright red, as if it had just been pulled out of flesh and blood—it should indeed have just been pulled out.

Looking at the direction from which the pain had just come, there was actually a strange structure in the shape of an interface at the navel.

Facing this strange scene, Fu Qian, whose sense of touch was gradually recovering, then pinched the thing in his hand.

That's right, it should be an umbilical cord.

… …

Not a coffin, but more like the opposite concept, the place where new life is truly conceived.

Fu Qian held one side with his free hand, silently updating his judgment.

The inner wall of the egg was extremely slippery, and at the same time as warm as the liquid inside.

Although the shape was still very different, this place was undoubtedly like a womb for nurturing life.

And what he was holding in his hand was the umbilical cord that had been forcibly pulled out.

Compared to the previous Heavens, this scene was a bit too bizarre.

Unfortunately, the transparency of this container was still poor, and he couldn't see the outside scenery clearly.

Of course, it wasn't a complete loss. Fu Qian had roughly seen the state of the umbilical cords.

There were nearly twenty of them, most of them severely withered, just like the natural aging of a newborn baby after birth, and even the degree of withering could be clearly seen.

But even the most severe one was still tightly connected to the inner wall.

In addition, there was even one that was rounder and fresher than the one in his hand.

So what's the situation?

Fu Qian reached out and grabbed it, compared it with the one in his left hand, and the interface at the navel.

It even looked more suitable, could it be…

Fu Qian put the two umbilical cords together, looked at the two liquids with slightly different colors oozing from the tips, thought for a while, and took a drop from the freshest one and tasted it.

Tight, tight, tight… That's the taste, the initial version of "Ecstasy" that he encountered.

It's just that the impact is too different, should it be due to the absorption method?

At one moment, Fu Qian seemed to see a familiar scene, but in just a breath, he broke free from that intoxication, and instead tasted a drop from the other umbilical cord.

This taste is also right… The situation seems a bit clear.

The umbilical cord doesn't seem to be just transporting nutrients to maintain survival, it's directly sending him "pleasure" in this more direct way, like soaking his brain directly in dopamine.

The legendary chemical ecstasy? It's really a bit déjà vu, is this the truth of the afterlife paradise?

As for why there are so many umbilical cords?

Following their roots, it can be found that although they are all connected to the surrounding blood vessel network, most of these blood vessels are also dry, and there is no direct connection between them, but they are layered on top of each other, just like a constantly updated water supply system.

And it seems that he just forcibly pulled out the newest system—and the second newest system.

As a result, the supply finally couldn't keep up, and there was no way to support him to continue the chemical ecstasy.