Chapter 523 Theseus''s Ship


    "I think!"


    Luo Jun looked into the master''s eyes and answered solemnly.


    Old Yuan nodded with relief: "Yes, since he has embarked on this path of cultivation, he must put his goal at the top. No matter whether he is at the peak or in a feather, he must have confidence in transcendence!"


    Luo Jun was also excited when he heard this: "Master, what do you mean by asking me? Do you think I have the capital to challenge the fertile world now?"


    Although Luo Jun had fought with Yu Hua, the situation was special at that time and his condition was not complete. The Jiuzhou Wei Beggar obviously did not deal with him seriously. Now, Luo Jun’s Peiyuan Realm has broken through to the ninth level, and its various attributes have improved a lot, and its strength has become different from the past. If you meet that old beggar again, Luo Jun will be a little urge to move up and gesture.


    Mr. Yuan shook his head: "On the contrary, I ask you this to set a rule for you."


    "Until you truly gain the ability to condense your mind, you must never challenge the feathering!"


    "Absolutely not possible?" Luo Jun frowned: "What does this mean?"


    "It''s the literal meaning." Old Yuan nodded and said, "I''m not discussing with you. If you still recognize me as a master, this is the teacher training. No matter what happens, you can''t conflict with the Feather Realm!"


    "What if Yuhua came to the door?" Luo Jun remembered the scene of being bullied by the Kyushu Weigao again, and felt a little resentful.


    "Then run!" said Mr. Yuan, "If you can''t run, you will admit defeat, apologize, kowtow and admit your mistakes. In short, as long as you can calm the other party''s anger, you can do anything, just don''t have conflicts!"


    "This is a bit too cowardly..."


    "It''s not too late for a gentleman to take revenge!" Mr. Yuan warned: "When you don''t have strength, the so-called dignity is worthless. When you have enough capital, no one dares to disrespect you!"


    Luo Jun looked at Old Yuan and saw concern and determination in the other party''s eyes. He finally nodded: "I understand, I will obey the teacher''s order!"


    Luo Jun originally didn''t have to challenge Yuhua. If his master hadn''t asked about it, he wouldn''t have thought of this question.


    What he was a little strange was why his master suddenly told him about this...Is he afraid that I would not know that the world is high and the earth is strong and he would take the initiative to die?


    Just kidding, everyone knows that Yuhua is the pinnacle of this world. He is in the Peiyuan Realm and his mind is broken. He is fine and he will go to trouble those land gods?


    This old man is really worried.


    After ending this topic, the master and apprentice continued to move forward and soon arrived at the black store.


    This time, he didn''t bring Ling Jian, and Luo Jun took out three gold ingots in advance. He shouldn''t be angry with the owner anymore, right?


    The master and apprentice made some preparations. Old Yuan put on the gossip and finger tiger. Luo Jun pinched the ingot with one hand and took out the wall-making wand with the other. The two of them slowly stepped forward and carefully knocked on the door.


    After a while, the iron door slowly opened and a head stretched out from it. Unlike the first two, this time the head was a very beautiful young woman.


    Not only does he have beautiful facial features, fair skin, but he also has exquisite makeup, and he doesn''t even have the nausea tumors on the two heads before. Because I was blocked by the door and couldn''t see my body below my neck, I couldn''t help but wonder if this was really a person, and no longer a disgusting monster like a big hand?


    "What''s wrong with you guys?" The woman''s voice was very beautiful, but her tone was very cold and she couldn''t feel any feelings.


    "We are here to trade." Luo Jun shook the gold ingot in his hand.


    The woman nodded: "So it''s a guest, come in..."


    As she said that, she opened the door.


    What disappointed Luo Jun was that the body behind the door was still the disgusting big hand, but the woman''s head grew on the ring finger.


    The master and apprentice walked into the store. The beautiful woman took the product brochure and asked, "What do you want to buy?"


    "If you want food, come ten servings." Luo Jun took out the banknotes, took the beauty''s head, and soon took out ten food packs from the debris and handed them to Luo Jun.


    When Luo Jun took it, he could feel something moving in his bag, and even heard a rustling sound.


    After putting the food into the smart equipment pack, Luo Jun redeemed another map.


    "Don''t you buy some high-end goods?" asked the beautiful head, "You have so many gold ingots, don''t just use money."


    "I plan to save it and use it together." Luo Jun smiled and said, "And, I have a question I want to ask for advice."


    The beautiful woman''s head looked at Luo Jun and said, "I''m not a library here, I don''t care about answering questions and answering questions."


    "I want to ask questions about hunting monsters." Luo Jun smiled and said, "It will be good for you to kill a few more Chaos monsters, right?"


    The beauty blinked her head: "Okay, just ask, I don''t guarantee that I can answer."


    "What I want to ask is that if you are infected by a chaotic creature, you will start to mutate..." As the question was asked, Luo Jun activated the Tianji Dice and determined to get a real answer.


    "Is there any way to save it?"


    As he heard this question, the beauty''s head''s eyes widened for a moment and looked at Luo Jun: "You haven''t mutated, why ask this?"


    Luo Jun picked up a ingot: "Do you know how this ingot came from? It was originally a companion of mine, but it mutated into a monster in front of me. I had no choice but to kill him, and in the end there was only such a golden ingot left."


    "I can only watch him mutate, not even knowing how all this happened. If this is my turn, how can I avoid the same fate as him? Or at least, how can I prevent being infected by the Chaos Monster?"


    The beautiful woman looked at Luo Jun and finally stretched out her hand: "Give me this ingot and I will tell you."


    Luo Jun hesitated for a moment, frowned, and then handed the ingot that Li Ying dropped to the beautiful woman''s head.


    "The process of human beings becoming monsters is not infection, it should be said to be replacement." "Replacement?" Luo Jun was stunned.


    "Have you heard of Theseus''s ship?" said the beautiful head: "A ship that is constantly sailing on the sea has never sunk thanks to continuous maintenance. Whenever a piece of its part rots, the crew will replace it in time. After many years, when every part of the ship has been replaced, is it still the original one? If not, then from how many replaced it, it is still the original ship? Which part has it turned into a new ship?"


    Luo Jun frowned slightly when he heard this: "You mean that people who are infected will be replaced slowly?"


    "You still don''t understand..." The beauty shook her head: "That''s not an infection. As long as a person is alive, he will metabolize and must exchange substances with the outside world. Every breath, every mouthful of food, every excretion, your body is replaced by substances from the outside world."


    "As long as you are still in this maze, your body will sooner or later be replaced by all the chaotic matter in the maze."


    "What did you say?" Luo Jun''s cold sweat broke out: "You mean, if we don''t leave this maze, we will sooner or later become that kind of monster?"


    The beautiful woman nodded: "But you don''t have to be afraid. Material is the foundation of the soul. When matter is replaced, your spirit and thought will change involuntarily. You yourself cannot even realize this change, and just feel that everything is taken for granted and will happily accept this change."


    "No..." Luo Jun shook his head and said, "The white shop said that this change should be related to the chaotic creatures he has come into contact with. Since it is an exchange, why did they enter the maze together? Some people mutate, and some people are still fine?"


    "He said it well." The beautiful woman''s head smiled and said, "This maze has been polluted by chaos. Those chaotic monsters are the manifestation of these pollutions, which are chaotic matter with extremely high concentrations. They will instinctively try to replace external creatures. The best way is to attack!"


    "If it''s just a daily activity, it''s still a long process to be replaced. But if you are injured, in order to repair your body, the metabolism will accelerate. If you happen to be injured by a Chaos monster, then this replacement will be further accelerated... The replacement is irreversible. If you find that you are starting to mutate and don''t want to become a monster, the best way is to take advantage of your rationality and let your companions kill you and bring gold ingots to me for the treasure."


    Speaking of this, the beautiful woman laughed and said, "That way, she can die more valuable."


    "Unless, you can find the exit before you completely mutate. The door to reality will purify all traces from the maze."


    "Don''t exaggerate!" Old Yuan snorted coldly, "How do we know whether what you said is true or false!"


    "I have given you the answer. Believe it or not has nothing to do with me." The beautiful head sneered: "How is it? Are there anything else you want to buy?"


    "Wait..." Luo Jun asked again: "The merchant in the white shop said that if the Chaos Monster who injured me burst out the ingot, then you don''t have to worry about mutation. What''s going on?"


    "The golden ingot is the product of the chaotic monster collapsed under the rules of the maze." The beautiful head said, "You can understand it as the corpse of the chaotic monster. When a chaotic monster dies, the remains of those bodies are not real corpses. The essence of chaotic matter is condensed and sealed in the chaotic gold ingot, so the replacement of the injured will not be accelerated."


    "Of course, the injury itself will still accelerate mutation. The guys in the white shop don''t understand the principle at all. They only know that they will not mutate immediately after the gold ingot is exploded. They think you have escaped the fate of being replaced. Humph, a group of idiots, who obviously have the protection of the rules, but they can''t figure out anything, wasting great resources in vain."


    "I have another question." Luo Jun looked at the beautiful girl''s head: "Why do you offer a reward for those chaos monsters in your black store? What is your relationship with the chaos monster? What is your relationship with the white store?"


    "This question is beyond my answer." The beauty''s head smiled and said, "Is there anything else I want to buy?"


    Luo Jun asked a few more questions, but he couldn''t find out why, so the master and apprentice had to leave the store.


    "In my opinion, the monster said that I can''t believe what he said!" Old Yuan shook his head and said, "There are many doubts about what she said, which are probably fake news deliberately released to disrupt us."


    Luo Jun shook his head: "I think what she said is true."


    "How can I see it?" Old Yuan frowned.


    "Intuition..." Luo Jun sighed, thinking that he couldn''t tell you that I had done a fortune in my heart, but it turned out to be very bad.


    Since this female monster is true, even if they have sufficient supplies to survive in the maze, they will sooner or later lose themselves and become monsters.


    From this point of view, this seemingly unlimited maze cannot last forever.


    Luo Jun originally had the intention to devote himself to practicing here and go out after being in seclusion for a few years. Now it seems that he has no time to do so.


    Now it seems that everyone, including himself, has been replaced by chaotic matter to a greater or lesser extent, but the key is as stated in Theseus''s ship. How many replaced, starting from the number, is not considered the real self, and this is impossible to verify.


    In other words, I don’t know how much time I have.


    "Master, after you go back, don''t tell everyone the truth." Luo Jun sighed: "I''m afraid they can''t accept it. If there is any internal strife, it may be even more troublesome."


    "I think so too." Old Yuan nodded: "What''s more, I don''t think that''s the so-called truth at all."


    "The key is what to do with Ling Jian." Luo Jun frowned and said, "According to the monster, he is no longer saved."


    "Even if what she said is true, as long as we can find the exit as soon as possible, Ling Jian can survive." Old Yuan frowned and said, "As long as there is hope, I don''t want to give up on him."


    Luo Jun wanted to refute, but he suddenly remembered Mr. Yuan who went to the Midnight Hotel to help him.


    Yes, if Mr. Yuan gave up on him at that time, he would probably die in the hotel forever... Master is Master, and it has never changed...


    The two of them quickly returned to everyone and told them about the information they received from the black store. Of course, the truth that everyone is constantly being assimilated has been hidden, but it is said that there is a risk of mutation when being injured by a Chaos Monster. If you want to save Ling Jian, you can only leave the maze before he completely mutates and return to reality.


    Even so, everyone was still desperate. The problem is back to finding an exit, but at present, it is harder to find an exit with irregular locations in a huge maze of at least hundreds or thousands of kilometers.


    "Don''t be discouraged, at least we have a way to make money quickly now." Luo Jun encouraged: "Now there is a monster-inspiring fragrance, and I have bought food from the black store. As long as we can make enough money as soon as possible and exchange it for the ultimate props on both sides, we can get out soon!"


    Now there is no other way. Everyone immediately took out the monster-inspiring fragrance, opened the food bag from the black store, and as soon as they opened it, the bugs inside crawled out, causing several girls to scream.


    After much persuasion, he finally merged the monster-smelling fragrance and the weird meat together. These two materials did have some wonderful reaction. The weird meat originally emitted a foul smell, and the weird fragrance also had a strange smell. But after these two things were combined, a strange fragrance was emitted. Not to mention monsters, even humans wanted to get close to them when they smelled it.


    But Luo Jun did not use it immediately. The nearby area was scanned by the map before. Everyone knew exactly what monster mechanisms were, and there was no need to waste props. They walked a few kilometers in a new direction and came to a brand new area, and finally ignited this enhanced version of the monster-attracting fragrance...


    (This chapter ends)