Although the worlds that have already reached their endings are filled with eerie horrors everywhere, and humanity has nearly gone extinct, the extinction of humans in these worlds also means no one will come to compete for resources anymore.
Horrors are everywhere, but from another perspective, the probability of “new horrors” appearing has also become very low. Monitoring the existing horrors is always better than not knowing when one might suddenly pop up right next to you.
Most importantly, the “competition” among high-order horrors in these ended worlds also means that their lifestyle patterns are mostly in a state of “hibernation.” So as long as you understand the habits of high-order horrors like the Shelter does — knowing when to go out and when to hide — you can still manage to survive.
This series of “advantages” gave rise to the Freak Organization’s yearning for spatial crossing. And since “Tiangan’s” goal is the next civilization, it naturally wants to find some clues from these extinct civilizations. This also explains why, even after disbanding, Tiangan would still provide the Rongshan Psychiatric Hospital with parasitic-type horrors for research purposes.
Shen Ge really wants to know whether the teleportation after establishing a teleportation channel is the “flash of white light” effect, and whether it can teleport people in addition to supplies.
If this ability is indeed the teleportation ability mastered by the Freak Organization, then it can most likely teleport people as well. Therefore, Shen Ge decided that after finishing his research on the system upgrade, he would find an opportunity to test it.
But as Shen Ge continued reading about other system upgrades, this matter was nearly tossed to the back of his mind, because the system had changed so much that there were simply too many functions to test.
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Fusion Devour: Devour high-order horrors (Trait Horrors, Ancestor Horrors, Horror Kings), extract the target’s trait abilities, and accelerate the repair of system integrity.
After performing “Fusion Devour,” if the host’s body is in an injured state, it will rapidly digest the horror corpse to repair itself.
“High-Speed Repair” — Consume system points to repair bodily injuries. The more severe the injury being repaired, the more system points are consumed.
(Note: Cannot repair the brain or internal organs.)
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“Good heavens!” Although Shen Ge knew he and the system were in a “symbiotic” state, so after the system devoured the “body regeneration substance,” he might also gain regenerative abilities — he didn’t expect the system to be so straightforward and brutal, directly consuming system points for recovery.
This suddenly made the system currency, which Shen Ge had nearly forgotten about, valuable again. You see, Shen Ge had already accumulated over sixty thousand system points from killing horrors, but he just hadn’t had many opportunities to draw resources. Besides, apart from horror-energy equipment, there wasn’t much else he cared for, so his system points just kept piling up.
Now, not only could the system points be put to use again, but it also solved, to a certain extent, situations like the physical exhaustion and severe injuries after using the “Silkworm.” Killing multiple birds with one stone!
“What a pity this regeneration ability can only target myself. If I could repair others, I could finally pull off a ‘System repairs all members, points deducted from me’ moment…” Shen Ge had plenty of everything else, but system points? He definitely had enough.
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【Base Attributes:】
Strength: 417% (Host base value) + 0% (System attribute boost)
Rating: Extremely strong.
Your strength has already broken through the limit of an adult human male, reaching 4.17 times the average. By devouring more high-order horrors, you can break through even higher limits!
(Current base value can be boosted up to a maximum of: 400 times)
Agility: 397% (Host base value) + 0% (System attribute boost)
Rating: Extremely strong.
Your agility value is already 3.97 times the average of an adult male — omitted.
(Current base value can be boosted up to a maximum of: 400 times)
Constitution: 408% (Host base value) + 0% (System attribute boost)
Rating: Extremely strong.
Your constitution value is already 4.08 times the average of an adult male — omitted.
(Current base value can be boosted up to a maximum of: 400 times)
Horror Energy Intensity: 1986% (Host base value) + 8379% (System attribute boost)
After the system attribute boost, your horror energy’s comprehensive value reaches 10365%, higher than the comprehensive value of an ordinary sixth-order horror at 10000%.
(First-order horror energy intensity: 100%)
Your current horror energy intensity is already 103.65 times the average horror energy intensity of a first-order horror.
(Seventh-order horror energy intensity: 100000%)
Tip: While increasing horror energy intensity, absorb high-order horrors to repair system integrity, thereby raising your rating.
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“…” Shen Ge was momentarily speechless looking at the base attribute panel. He wasn’t surprised that raising the system rating would affect the improvement of his three base attributes — humanity’s limit is three times, and his base attributes had already surpassed human limits, clearly influenced by his Freak Body.
Nearly four times the strength, agility, and constitution — this meant that even without trait abilities and horror-energy equipment, Shen Ge would be like a civilian version of Homelander when facing ordinary people, even if not quite a superman.
But his horror energy had already broken through 10000, yet the boost to his three base attributes could only reach 400 times. And after experiencing the “Silkworm’s” infinite enhancement of base attributes, this maximum value no longer held much excitement for Shen Ge — not to mention this was the multiplier achievable only by draining all his horror energy.
Even more absurd was that to break through from sixth-order to seventh-order, the horror energy intensity boost needed to reach ten times — a leap from 10000 to 100000. This instantly made Shen Ge understand why seventh-order was a qualitative leap for horrors. Once you successfully complete seventh-order mutation, you become a Horror King ruling your own territory. Just this gap in horror energy alone was enough to explain everything!
Looking further down, Shen Ge couldn’t help but rub his eyes, thinking he’d misread — only to discover the system had actually digitized the power of dreams.
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【System Points: 63597】
(Can consume system points to draw materials from the current area, or perform targeted transfer after scanning; can also consume system points to repair yourself.)
【Dream Fragments】
“Fusion Fragment 1”: Dream Power 970
Fragment 2: Dream Power 71
Fragment 3: Dream Power 52
Fragment 4: Dream Power 37
Fragment 5: Dream Power 23
Note 1: Each dream fragment has different remaining dream power depending on the degree of destruction of the fragment world. Dream fragments can be fused together.
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This “Fusion Fragment 1” was obviously the large fragment Shen Ge obtained after fusing all the dream fragments he had captured. He just didn’t expect the dream power after fusion to be as high as 970.
“The dream power of dream fragments comes from destroyed worlds. Every world that yields a fragment means it has already completely collapsed… But measuring a world’s power with a two-digit number is a bit childish, isn’t it?”
It could only be said that Shen Ge was still Shen Ge. Faced with the digitization of dream power, his first thought wasn’t about how to rationally use and plan these powers, but rather noticing the absurd point that ordinary people wouldn’t see.
Looking further down, there was a new set of data.
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【Currently Locked World Coordinates:】
“Reality (1009320) World Coordinate”: Locking costs 100 dream power. After consuming dream power to lock coordinates, spatial crossing becomes possible.
“Fragment World (1001745) World Coordinate”: Locking costs 100 dream power. After consuming dream power to lock coordinates, spatial crossing becomes possible.
“Fusion Fragment 1”: Collapsed World, costs 50 dream power to teleport.
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“Collapsed World?” Shen Ge clearly didn’t expect that fused dream fragments would actually produce a fused collapsed world. For a moment, he couldn’t help but think of the chaotic world he had experienced before, and immediately suspected — could that also have been some fused fragment world?
Who?
The Freak Organization?
Whether it was the “lottery (teleportation)” ability or the mechanics of these fragment worlds, all signs pointed to the Freak Organization also having mastered the power of dreams.
This was the result Shen Ge least wanted to see, because the power of dreams was currently one of his trump cards. If the other side also mastered it, that advantage would completely vanish.
But Shen Ge believed this possibility wasn’t very high, because only someone who had mastered the power of dreams would know just how powerful this force truly is. If he were the leader of the Freak Organization and had mastered such tremendous power, he absolutely wouldn’t cower behind the scenes scheming — he would choose to strike at the most prominent target first.
Using the power of dreams to eliminate a few people who resist the Freak Organization — whoever takes the lead gets taken out first — then appropriately throw some benefits to the others. This is a time-tested domestication method, the most commonly used throughout history.
“Never mind this collapsed world for now — even for a world with locked dream coordinates, one teleportation costs 100 dream power. A round trip is 200… Tsk, looks like even over a thousand dream power isn’t enough.” Shen Ge suddenly realized that after digitization, dream power had actually become scarce instead.
Dream power isn’t like horror energy, which has means of self-recovery, nor is it like system points that can be obtained by hunting horrors. The difficulty of obtaining it means it’s inherently scarce.
Secondly, in the past, since Shen Ge couldn’t see specific numerical values when using dream power, 100 and 10 made no practical difference to him. Now that he had concrete figures, he suddenly felt that one teleportation was a bit painful.
But regardless, digitization was ultimately a good thing. It allowed Shen Ge to plan the use and allocation of dream power more strategically, spending his power where it mattered most.
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【Possessed Horror Energy (Trait) Equipment】:
Pig-Killing Knife “Trait: Indestructible”
Horror-Extinguishing Revolver (“Horror Energy Magazine” Trait: Infinite)
Horror Lighter (“Trait: Unquenchable”)
【Trait Enhancement Points】: 2
【Traits:】
“Misfortune”: Horror Sequence 3
(Enhanceable count 7, Horror Domain count 2/3)
“Immovable”: Horror Sequence 4
(Enhanceable count 3, Horror Domain count 1/2)
“Unleash”: Horror Sequence 5
(Enhanceable count 3, Horror Domain count 1/2)
“Unburnable”: Horror Sequence Number 18
(Enhanceable count 5, Horror Domain count 1/2)
“Soundless”: Horror Sequence Number 19
(Enhanceable count 0, Horror Domain count 2/2)
“Formless”: Horror Sequence Number 24
(Enhanceable count 0, Horror Domain count 2/2)
“Traceless”: Horror Sequence Number 26
(Enhanceable count 3, Horror Domain count 1)
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Shen Ge currently possessed seven trait abilities: “Misfortune,” “Immovable,” “Unleash,” “Unburnable,” “Soundless,” “Formless,” and “Traceless.” Among them, “Soundless” and “Formless” had exhausted their enhancement counts and could no longer be enhanced through trait enhancement points.
As for the remaining trait abilities, only “Traceless” had never been enhanced even once, and its ability was one of the three most commonly used among all traits.
The earlier a trait’s horror sequence number, the more times it can be enhanced. “Traceless” had horror sequence number 26, which should be a relatively later trait, hence only having “3” enhanceable times.
Shen Ge still had two trait enhancement points in hand. Enhancing “Traceless,” a trait he used constantly, was naturally a no-loss proposition.
【Use trait enhancement point to enhance “Trait: Traceless”?】
“Yes!”
【Trait “Traceless” has been upgraded!】
“Traceless”: Horror Sequence Number 26
(Enhanceable count 2, Horror Domain count 1)
Base trait effect: After activating the trait, you can be shrouded in “White Mist.” In this state, you cannot be detected by horror-energy detection abilities or items. Consumes 0.5% horror energy per second. Can be activated simultaneously with other traits.
Can consume more horror energy to further expand the range affected by “White Mist.” Maximum range does not exceed a ten-meter radius centered on yourself.
Can consume horror energy to imbue the trait effect of “Traceless” onto a person or object. The duration of the trait effect depends on the strength of the horror energy imbued.
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“That’s it? Gone?”
That’s it? That’s it? That’s it?
After using one trait enhancement point on “Traceless,” Shen Ge further expanded the range affected by the white mist and gained an effect similar to “Soundless” that could affect objects.
But to be honest, the appearance of these two “functions” didn’t actually affect the regular use of “Traceless” — it was even… meaningless.
After all, Traceless blocks detection; it doesn’t make you “formless” or “soundless.” It actually still needs to be used in conjunction with “Formless.”
Furthermore, even though “Traceless’s” white mist was essentially a low-tier version of a horror domain — and the system description confirmed this — Shen Ge still felt somewhat disappointed.
In his view, trait enhancement should at least produce a quantitative change, if not a qualitative one. Take “Unleash” and “Immovable” for example — both were trait abilities, and at first their usage rates were far below Soundless and Formless. But with several enhancements to “Unleash,” especially after the Formless Barrier appeared, its usage rate skyrocketed.
Meanwhile, “Traceless,” as one of the three commonly used traits alongside “Soundless” and “Formless,” only had such subtle changes at this point — somewhat underwhelming.
“Sigh.” This neither-painful-nor-itchy change put Shen Ge in an awkward position. If he didn’t continue, it felt like the trait enhancement point was wasted — like whether he’d used it or not made no difference to its usage.
If he did continue enhancing, and two trait enhancement points still didn’t bring about a qualitative leap, then Shen Ge would be ready to bang his head against a wall.
With the principle of “since my head’s already out there, I can’t tuck my tail between my legs now,” Shen Ge could only grit his teeth and put the second trait enhancement point into “Traceless” as well.
【Trait “Traceless” has been upgraded!】
【Awakened “Traceless Horror Domain.”】
