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“I have more important tasks to complete now. Although I feel sorry for those people, I can only ask them to continue for a while longer.”

When she said those words, the shrine maiden showed no sign of discomfort, neither in her expression nor in her tone.

Aria, on the other hand, was incredulous upon hearing her words: "Are you really Snow White?"

"Yes, I am Hoshiga Shirayuki, the shrine maiden of Hoshiga Shrine, and also the representative of the gods on earth."

The remaining 1% of her sanity made her unconsciously avoid Aria's incredulous gaze. However, after making this move, she felt puzzled, so she turned her gaze back: "I must now go to the northern sea to pray to the gods to purify the evil that has invaded this land. If we let it continue to spread, then this divine trial may be affected. This is against the will of the gods and must not be allowed."

"Evil? God? Trial? What are you talking about?"

Aria thought her former friend had gone mad. In her memory, this girl with the personality of a Yamato Nadeshiko would not only disregard the lives of others, but would also instinctively help someone who was injured in front of her. How could she have become like this? Unless she had gone insane.

Like Aria, Hoshiga Shirayuki also believed that Aria had gone mad.

"The gods are the beings who have sent us this trial. Only those who have undergone the trial can come into contact with the gods. Isn't this something everyone understands?"

After uttering these incomprehensible words in a matter-of-fact tone, the priestess's expression showed some dissatisfaction, not because of her own doubts, but because of the disrespect shown to the "gods," which caused the joy she had felt from the reunion to quickly vanish.

Aria, noticing this, seemed about to say something, but at the same time, Lin Yi's voice rang in her mind: "If she is a survivor from the shrine, then it doesn't matter whether it's sooner or later. We can't just let your... well, your shrine friend give up when she's almost reached her destination after spending so much time. Why don't you go with her and see what this so-called 'evil' and 'god' really are?"

"But……"

Looking at Aria, whose expression showed some struggle, Lin Yi said calmly, "Perhaps this is related to why she became like this. I think you wouldn't want to see a friend so easily bewitched and driven mad."

Ultimately, her concern for her friend, who still couldn't forget her, led her to decide to wait and see for the time being. On the other hand, she was also filled with anger and hatred towards what had caused her former friend to become like this.

(If the murderer is found, they must be killed!)

Level of psychological impact: 69%

There's really no difference between the two people's situations when you put them side by side.

Crazy people never think they are crazy, just as mentally ill people can always find excuses for their behavior when they hurt others. In fact, from their perspective, the actions and behaviors of others are crazy and abnormal.

Suspicion breeds in this context, further dividing the two sides. What will they become when they lose their last bond and live alone in this world with no future?

Despair from the “unknown” quietly devours every person who still retains their reason in this way.

After receiving Aria's "affirmation," Xingjia Baixue's attitude improved significantly. When Lin Yi, a stranger she was meeting for the first time, asked to go together, she didn't have a single question. Instead, she accepted him with great enthusiasm.

"No matter who you were before, as long as you have undergone the trials of the 'gods,' you will also have the hope of meeting the companions of that invisible realm. Here, we are all the same, moving towards the same unknown."

Unlike Aria, who remained silent and expressionless, Lin Yi struck up a conversation with this "god's representative on earth," especially about the "god" she spoke of.

"unknown?"

"Yes, the unknown... 'God' is too majestic and powerful. Anyone who looks directly at their existence will have all their senses taken away. Only by experiencing this trial brought down by 'God' can one have the world to look directly at 'God' and truly come into contact with the existence of 'God'."

The priestess's fanatical tone made one wonder if she would do so if her "god" asked her to dedicate herself here.

However, Lin Yi raised a different question: one that was exceptionally simple for the priestess.

"Can you tell me the name of your 'god'...?"

"Of course, His name is Nyar—"

The second half of the syllables was overwhelmed by a question from Lin Yi that he hadn't finished speaking.

"...The shrine maiden of Hoshiga Shrine."

The world created by the "fragments" differs slightly from the worlds not created by them, which serve as the "blueprints" for these false worlds. Some of these discrepancies are logical contradictions, while others are incompatible with the rules. The differences are so subtle that some individuals may exhibit reckless behavior in one false world and extreme caution in another.

Such subtle actions are not simply unintentional. A cautious "native" can provide some information that allows the world to develop in a certain direction, while a reckless "native" may cause changes in the "plot" and lead the world to develop in another direction, providing more information.

Unlike the Transmigrator Alliance, which tries every means to bring the plot back to its original state in order to avoid it going off-track, the "Fragments" themselves not only do not oppose the plot going off-track, but are even quite happy to see it happen to some extent. However, because the way they want the plot to go off-track to collect information conflicts with the behavior of the transmigrators that can generate more information, they usually choose to do it in the latter way.

It is precisely because of these subtle deviations that the transmigrators, whose mission is to maintain the normal development of the plot, did not take the decision to prohibit every transmigrator entering another world from contacting the characters in the plot. After all, whether the transmigrators contact the plot or not, things will eventually change due to the "collapse" of some characters in the plot. As long as the transmigrators intervene when necessary, it is enough. The administrator of each world is responsible for maintaining the level of intervention, so that the characters in the plot do not collapse too much, nor do the transmigrators interfere too much.

Among these slightly flawed settings, whether the Hoshiga Shrine actually exists in the real-world prototype remains uncertain until Lin Yi personally sets foot in that world. But regardless of its existence, one thing is certain.

Would a typical Eastern country with legends of eight million gods have started worshipping a Western evil god from hundreds or thousands of years ago?

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When the remaining 1% of rationality clashes with the 99% of madness, the former can often only serve as a slight "wake-up call," and this effect is usually short-lived.

As a tsunami-like, distorted prayer echoed from afar, Xingjia Baixue's thoughts quickly shifted from the inexplicable sense of objective strangeness to the events unfolding before her eyes.

"It is the voice of evil calling upon their father god!"

Gazing at the faintly visible sea in the distance, what sounded to an ordinary person was just a jumble of disordered and nauseating tones, but Xingjia Baixue, who was listening intently, seemed to truly hear a "message" in these sounds: "A 'divine invocation ritual' must be held. The land is the place where 'gods' descend to hone their skills, and we must not allow the evil of the deep sea to taint it!"

Although he felt that there was no difference between the seabed and the land, after confirming the state of the witch who was teetering on the edge of madness during his earlier probing, Lin Yi did not intend to stop her. Instead, he let her continue to act while he followed behind to observe.

As the witch decided to begin her so-called "divine summoning ritual," Lin Yi, from a distance of over twenty kilometers, "saw" those...mermaids on the northern beach.

Their bodies are a dark grayish-green, with most of their skin smooth and shiny, except for a high, scaly ridge on their backs. Their forms have vaguely humanoid features, but their heads are fish-like, with huge, protruding eyes that never close. On either side of their necks are constantly trembling gills, and their long arms and legs are webbed—a form similar to, yet different from, the legendary "fish-men." The similarity lies in their combination of human form and fish-like structure, while the difference lies in the stark contrast between these creatures and the legendary "mermaids" who can seduce humans, presenting a completely different and more extreme image.

If mermaids are one of the embodiments of beauty in human consciousness, then these creatures have probably surpassed human imagination of "ugliness," reaching a level that would drive people to the brink of collapse or even madness just by seeing them.

These "evil" creatures leaped forward haphazardly on the beach, sometimes using only their hind legs, sometimes on all fours, while uttering a jumble of sounds with their hoarse, sharp throats. In Xingjia Baixue's understanding, these sounds seemed to be their prayers to the "father god" in the deep sea.

It must be said that, as the only person who has been able to maintain "rationality" in this crazy world, the shrine maiden has actually gained a lot of "inhuman knowledge" that is different from ordinary people after being subjected to the ubiquitous mental pollution in the world.

In Lin Yi's observation, as more and more mermaids emerged from the sea, scrambling onto the beach and emitting chaotic roars, the entire northern sea began to boil.

Hundreds upon hundreds of enormous bubbles, each with a radius of several meters, rolled and rose from beneath the sea surface, bursting on the surface with terrifying temperatures. Mermaids who couldn't escape were directly engulfed in the high temperatures of several hundred degrees, their skin instantly scalded and torn apart.

Even though some of their kind had encountered such a thing, the remaining mermaids did not retreat. Instead, they roared and called out to the beings gradually awakening in the sea with even more frenzied cries...

At the same time, the shrine maiden beside him, having finished her preparations, officially began what she called the "summoning of the gods ritual."

Like the mermaids on the sea, the language emanating from this witch's mouth was not one that any human could understand. It was more like the groans and shouts of a madman in his unconscious state, which had no meaning other than making people feel depressed and uncomfortable. However, such a sound appeared in some situations that would not be possible under normal circumstances on this planet that is gradually being "polluted".

In Lin Yi's perception, as the priestess's "ritual" unfolded, some ambiguous entity, along with a large amount of mixed infectious material in the air, gathered together to form a chaotic and disordered worm-like body above everyone's heads. Fortunately, it was transparent; otherwise, the sheer visual impact of this worm-like body alone would have driven everyone below, including Aria, to madness.

It is such a twisted existence. Although it does not exert any other infectious tendency in terms of hearing, it displays all the twists in its "form" itself, to the point that an ordinary person's entire cognition will collapse if they just look at it. To a certain extent, Lin Yi even found the concepts of "twisted" and "madness" in its composition.

However, the concept is incomplete. The "god" lacks most of the transparent wriggling bodies that make up it and does not have any independent thought or movement ability. Instead, it wriggles towards the beach following the priestess's chaotic guidance, which is why it is said to be ambiguous.

Aria, whose vision was still within the normal range, could not see the transparent worm-like body, but the enhancement from "hunger" made her sense the abnormality around her. Then, a large area of ​​ruins leading to the sea suddenly disappeared—as if it had been swallowed and digested by something unseen, revealing a long passage with residual unknown slime.

This bizarre scene sent chills down the girl's spine, and her mental infection level instantly soared to 75%. However, compared to the other survivors around her, Er Ya was much luckier.

Based on his previous encounters with indigenous people whose minds had been corrupted, Lin Yi roughly identified several levels of mental corruption.

First, there's 0%—similar to an information entity. Only individuals with a constant mental state can maintain a 0% infection rate in this world. After all, this world has been eroded to a great extent, so even if you do nothing but stand here, you will be infected to some degree.

Then, below 10%, infected people are not much different from ordinary people. After all, even in a normal worldview, some people may have crazy ideas in their hearts. However, thinking is one thing, but whether they will do it is another.

After that comes a slow erosion period of 11% to 50%. Generally speaking, as long as the source of mental infection is cut off, even if the infection level reaches 50%, it can be saved and the person can become a normal person. However, this is meaningless to the original inhabitants of this world. Unless they leave this world like Aria and Reki, the infection level will eventually reach more than 50%.

Then comes the 70% mark, a point of qualitative change. Infected individuals with a 70% level of mental pollution can still retain a certain degree of rationality, but despair has caused them to stop thinking to the greatest extent. If it rises to 80%, they simply give up thinking and seek other ways to avoid this despair, either through death or madness. This is also the initial manifestation of the "lost ones".

Then, one can receive mysterious knowledge that is omnipresent in the air, understand the information contained in those chaotic syllables, and even connect with those unknown beings to a certain extent to obtain 90% of their power.

The group of survivors led by Xingjia Baixue all had a mental infection rate of over 90%.

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When the level of mental pollution reaches 90%, whether they like it or not, the infected person will understand what they cannot understand and see what they cannot see.

But when Xingjia Baixue summoned the enormous, transparent wriggling creature using the "Summoning Ritual," these survivors with the infection level undoubtedly succumbed. Some had blood welling in their eyes, seemingly trying their best to close them, yet their gazes remained fixed on it; some opened their mouths wide, fragments of internal organs gushing from their throats, yet they ignored the encirclement, numbly watching its presence; others revealed expressions of extreme fanaticism, rushing towards the wriggling thing with a speed that even Aria couldn't react to, letting out a shout just before their bodies merged into it:

“Nyarlathotep (Nyarlathotep) –”

Perhaps it was the call of its real name that drew its attention, or perhaps the influx of a large number of sentient "sacrifices" gave it the ability to observe and judge. At least in Lin Yi's observation, it was certain that this constantly wriggling thing was no longer "rushing around" as before, but was observing its surroundings more keenly as it continued to approach the beach.

Twenty kilometers was not a long distance for this twisted thing. After a large number of "sacrifices" poured in, crossing the broken distance was even easier. Soon, the twisted thing arrived at the beach with a large number of fishmen under Xingjia Baixue's guidance.

Unlike humans, the fish-people, who worship "Father God," are naturally at a mental pollution level of over 90%, so they can naturally detect this wriggling thing and seem to be quite familiar with it.

They roared the name "Nyarlathotep" in voices filled with fear or panic. Many who tried to flee were brutally killed by the mermaids who were significantly larger than them. Those in front could only choose to bypass the area where the writhing creatures were and approach the priestess who was controlling them.

Of course, some people choose to pick on Lin Yi, who is an easy target.

"Your battlefield is over there."

Lin Yi was certain that they could understand her words, but her friendly reminders were not accepted by them. Instead, they roared and vented their malice, and then charged at her wielding sharp claws and harpoon-like objects.

Undoubtedly, these creatures living in the deep sea possess powerful bodies that humans lack. Every time they stomp on the ground, they create quite a commotion. Coupled with their terrifying appearance and size that is much larger than that of ordinary people, they could probably hold their own even in a head-on collision with an armored vehicle.

However, this only applies to armored vehicles.

The "singularity" was activated directly inside the gill-filled head. The powerful gravity instantly devoured its brain and skull, leaving its headless body to crash to the ground. Dragged along by the momentum of its charge, it fell silent.

Several other mermaids who tried to approach from the side also encountered a similar situation, and without exception, their heads "disappeared without a trace." After realizing that Lin Yi was not an easy target, these mermaids roared and retreated, and could only choose to target the priestess and the armed detectives who were trying to protect her from the mermaid offensive.

Aria was in a tough fight. Although she was enhanced by "hunger" and was not so badly defeated by these merfolk, the problem was the mental pollution they carried. This caused Aria, whose infection rate had reached 78%, to fall into a state of dazedness. However, if the priestess hadn't led the wriggling creatures to slaughter these merfolk and diverted most of their attention, they probably would have already followed in the footsteps of the torn survivors.

Even so, when a terrifying, distorted, and frenzied roar came from the deep sea, shaking the ocean, she had reached her limit.

Level of psychological impact: 81%

The slumped-down detective girl was presented with a large amount of chaotic and disordered information, yet she strangely understood it, and even had a vague realization—this was her "past" and "future." However, all of this was covered by shadows in the next second, and she looked up into the distance.

Through thick radiation clouds in the sky, the sunlight was compressed to its limit, so much so that the once boundless blue sea seemed to be stained with turbidity. At this moment, a twisted figure, seemingly without end, emerged from beneath this murky seabed. One of its "arms" stretched out from the horizon, its five fingers spread wide, compressing the air below with a "slapping" motion, pressing down towards the beach with boundless terror—

The merfolk, also within the attack range, showed no fear. Instead, they shouted its name in a frenzied tone. Aria, who had once been unable to understand these chaotic syllables, now understood them.

"Dagon—"

At the same moment, information about these mermaids surfaced in the girl's mind.

Their name is "Deep Dwellers," a race that worships their eldest member, "Dagon the Father," and his consort, "Hydra the Mother," as well as "Great Cthulhu," the ruler of all aquatic creatures.

Among this knowledge of unknown origin, Aria discovered an even more incomprehensible description: "the Great Cthulhu," but her current situation prevented her from continuing to search for information about this description.

From the unknown depths of the ocean, the oldest deep-sea diver, Dagon, wields its arm—forged from the remains of countless deep-sea corpses—capable of driving those who behold its presence mad, as it falls, accompanied by a deep, guttural roar.

Nyarlathotep

The wriggling thing below seemed to be stimulated, but the vast difference in size and total amount meant that the two were not comparable at all. Just a clash of ideas made this wriggling thing, which could not even be called a "clone", disappear without a trace. Before that, Lin Yi noticed that it seemed to be "looking" in this direction.

"This thing even has a 'seeing' function?"

The distorted singularity directly pulled the two remaining survivors on the field to another location thousands of kilometers away. The next moment, the arm made from the corpse of the dead slammed heavily to the ground.

Looking down from the sky, the Hokkaido tectonic plate was ripped open by a terrifying force, and billowing dust spread southward along the northern edge, a result of the impact caused by kinetic energy.

Meanwhile, deep beneath the sea, the ancient deep-sea creatures, unable to expel Nyarlathotep's messengers from this world ahead of time, let out a low roar, their target shifting to Lin Yi, the one who caused this scene.

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Unexpectedly, the Deep One, which constantly exudes a crazy quality, did not launch an attack directly according to its crazy thinking. Instead, it connected with Lin Yi with its vast thinking—perhaps trying to directly corrupt Lin Yi into a new Deep One in this way.

But it gave up the next moment.

Although it is incomprehensible how this "human" could maintain its independent thinking under the corruption of the Great Old Ones, this does not prevent the Deep Ones from understanding that this "human" is not one of the inferior life forms that it had previously crushed and transformed at will.

As a means of establishing negotiations, it provided intelligence.

“Our leader has corrupted this world, and I am merely one of the insignificant lower Great Old Ones who entered this world through its vast power.”

Unlike Nyarlathotep, who was merely thrown in and couldn't even be called a clone, Dagon, a Deep One who squeezed his entire body into this world and was also a lower-level Great Old One, appeared in this world with a massive size that only the ocean could contain. At least in Lin Yi's observation, if it stood up, the weight it generated might crush the land beneath its feet—sinking it into the magma of the earth's crust.

The sheer volume of pollution triggered a qualitative change; mere fluctuations in thought caused the mental pollution near this beach to increase exponentially: "You possess the knowledge and power to share this world with me. How can we allow Nyarlathotep's true form to invade? We will both face failure."

Faced with Dagong's "persuasion," Lin Yi asked curiously, "Are you afraid of it?"

“…Nyarlathotep is one of the three pillar gods, and the knowledge and power it possesses are beyond our comprehension and ability to contend with.”

After a brief explanation, the Deep One changed the subject: "If it kills the followers it finds in this world, it will never be able to set foot here again."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi was speechless: "I don't know if it's strong or not, but it's at least smarter than you."

The tremors coming from the bottom of the deep sea signify the anger of the deep-sea divers.

The link that was constantly transmitting pollution information was directly severed, and the singularity was pulled directly to the airspace above the sea area where the Deep Diver was located. The AT field, which was expanded to its limit, cut off all interference between the sea and the land, and pressed its palm onto the surface of the AT field.

The art of mediumship.

Before the planetary annihilation weapon unleashed a punch with 20% of its power, Lin Yi's last message was transmitted to the Deep One's consciousness.

"At least, it won't let its own body rashly enter a space that could kill it at any moment."

The ocean beneath him was torn apart, revealing the Apocalypse War thousands of meters below the seabed, as well as the figure of the Deep One who had been punched into the earth's crust.