Chapter 767 - 440: There Is Only One Truth
Xue Dili slowly places a question mark.
Demon? What demon?
Then he suddenly realizes what the Mimic Venerable King is talking about. Xue Dili had once handed over the civilization data from Susu’s hometown to the Interstellar Corps as his final payback to that civilization after obtaining the Demon’s power.
Although, that was merely a tombstone inscription.
But the Mimic Venerable King was the last to receive that group of information, and upon seeing it, the Mimic Venerable King instantly feels that these so-called "demons" are very similar to failed Apostles.
That is, they walk the same path as the Apostles; only, they failed, ultimately neither mastering the power of authority nor maintaining their self. Therefore, they completely become meme beings existing due to concepts.
This is the essence of demons.
In essence, they are somewhat like Apostles, somewhat like extremely weakened versions of the Subspace Evil Gods.
For the civilization of Susu’s world, such demons are difficult enemies to deal with. Even if the whole civilization unified into immortal Evil Ghosts and demons, they are hard to resist.
But for the Mimic Venerable King, they’re just slightly larger bugs. After researching their essence thoroughly, he no longer pays attention to such peculiar meme beings and doesn’t even think they could form cosmic catastrophes.
Because demons are purely living by "concept," such beings are not influenced by objective facts, only by concepts.
Which means, as long as there is darkness, the Dark Demon will never die.
Conversely, as long as there is no darkness, the Dark Demon must die, so the Dark Demon steps out! Waiting under the shadowless lamp to die!
This is the demon; they are born from concepts and will die from their own concepts.
Xue Dili begins to wonder, asking, "What does this thing have to do with demons?"
Xue Dili gazes again at the exceedingly tragic dead body, the chest wide open, empty inside. It looks less like a corpse and more like those lambs outside roast lamb shops, innards removed, blood drained, hanging on a meat hook waiting for buyers to pick.
Wait... roast lamb...
Xue Dili immediately plunges his head into the opened chest, searching for a hole. Sure enough, he finds a hole through the chest under the ribs, with the ribs already broken.
Even the meat around the hole appears bruised and knotted; this wasn’t hung after death but hung on something like a meat hook while the person was still alive.
Xue Dili inhales sharply, perhaps understanding why the Venerable King says this thing is related to demons. Such cruel slaughter seems like pure acts of fear performed by naturally evil creatures. Xue Dili feels this can only be explained this way.
Moreover, the fear and pain on the surface of the corpse, the expression of regret and resentment intertwined, show a twisted state of mind held during their last moments before death.
This indeed makes Xue Dili very puzzled. Even if Apostles kill, at most they just mess around with pants-down matters, which is understandable.
After all, Apostles want a hot mouth, and to stimulate population, they’re forced to create pants-down tragedies. Even the so-called Minotaur and green hat stories are out of general Apostles’ considerations; they each play with new tricks.
The Heart Stealer under the Fourth Apostle uses population to create breeding factories, making the entire world depend on childbirth to survive...
The Sixth Apostle fully transforms humans into a twisted breeding "pseudo-insect," thus gaining large populations.
The Ninth Apostle completely turns humans into clones; as long as he exists, they reproduce like chives, and people in that world will entirely cease to exist without the Ninth Apostle’s authority.
The Twelfth Apostle creates a legitimately male and female world, turning all men into women with the Gender Transformation Potion, so everyone participates in the reproduction process. Men, too, need to get pregnant...
With Apostles who play around in pants-down matters growing, Xue Dili can’t help but associate these broken things with Apostles when it’s about reproduction and pants-down issues. Truly, the Apostles have such an overwhelming taste, only they in the cosmos possibly enhance population with no limits.
The problem is, even this shamelessness, the stimulation and enhancement of population aren’t higher than what Xue Dili has seen with the Super Iron Curtain...
Because the ways Apostles stimulate population easily revert humans to only knowing reproduction, losing any thought like beasts, it would lose the Spirituality inherently close to the Venerable King and the energy needed for the Divine Tree’s fruit.
Which means, the more they exploit, the efficiency becomes lower instead.
But the Super Iron Curtain is different; in dedicated belief, their population once peaked over 20 billion, continuing to increase while spirituality didn’t decrease a bit.
This is quite awkward.
Xue Dili silently gives a middle finger to those Apostles who even fail in raising population efficiently. Slave masters remain slave masters, thinking absolute suppression and violence can lead to population increase.
Just like what Xue Dili had learned, a rule named population "S" curve pattern, the growth rate is lowest when the population is extremely low or high. Low growth when population is scarce due to low initial value, and low growth when population is abundant due to environmental saturation.