The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

He had already guessed a lot...

"You're just a ghost of this school, aren't you?" Xue Dinglu asked.

The blonde bombshell paused, then reached out and touched Xue Luding's forehead, saying, "Are you having an attack? You don't have a fever?"

"Maybe, I'm probably sick..." Xue Dinglu smiled, but at this moment, he began his experiment, materializing his fantasies.

In front of the girl, he chose Amei's most classic "Spider-Man" image and instantly changed into the Spider-Man suit.

The girl's pupils widened in disbelief as she exclaimed, "Bro, you're Spider-Man? OMG! Bro, bro, you smell so good, how about being my husband?"

Her thoughts were very disjointed, like Harley Quinn, both erratic and repressed.

At that moment, Xue Dinglu and the old ghost clearly saw that she had shrunk dramatically from her previous figure, which resembled that of a female college student. She also seemed to become younger, soon looking even younger than when they first met, only about 12 years old, like a flat doll.

"Did you see clearly, Xue boy?" the old ghost said.

"I think I understand now. She might be the embodiment of all the students' last fantasies in this school..." Xue Dinglu closed his eyes. He had discovered this during the experiment just now. "A ghost formed from the last fantasies of teenagers after the children have been stripped away..."

Xue's Law laughed: "So, she embodies all the flaws of teenagers: repression, truancy, giving up, greed, eccentricity... but she also embodies all their good qualities..."

"I think I know what the rituals of those corrupt mystics are."

……

Odysseus and the old man who loves crafts are on the other side.

"Bro, it's getting cold, put on a scarf to keep warm." The old man with Howard's face was adjusting the scarf around the neck of the person opposite him.

Beneath the scarf, the fire of the soul quietly infiltrated the mystic's body. For Odysseus, possessing a person of legendary status posed little challenge.

Although he's not very good, that's only relative to high-level games. In low to mid-level games, Odysseus is still a master at bullying enemies of legendary rank and below.

"Haha, brother, Lord Brington is ready, please come in!" The old man who loves crafts began to walk into the magnificent church.

Mousse, Indonesia, 384 kilometers northeast of Boston, is the stronghold of those degenerate mystics.

The two split up: Odysseus was to investigate the evil spirits summoned by the group of fallen mystics, while the old man who loved crafts was to go directly to Brinton and the person who might be controlling Brinton behind the scenes.

If given the chance, try to kill the mastermind behind it all.

Although it was a bit risky, the old man who loved crafts felt he still had a chance. After all, he wasn't the real science fiction horror writer, but rather an evil spirit personified by the world's perception of "Cthulhu horror." His abilities included, but were not limited to, the language of the Ancients, face-changing by the Faceless Men, and reality distortion.

If he plays well, he has a great chance to take down the opponent directly.

Meanwhile, Odysseus, much like Agent 47, successfully infiltrated the church's underground by repeatedly changing his possession targets.

During his intelligence gathering, he discovered that this was the area where these corrupt mystics hid their evil spirits, and also the place where they made sacrifices.

He once again possessed a near-legendary fallen mystic by gifting him a scarf, and then killed the previous body and disposed of the evidence.

He even chose to use part of the Sky Thunder's power to burn the corpse because he was afraid that it would be exposed by being swallowed by the tree roots.

In his previous investigation, he had already discovered the evil spirits of the fallen mystics, one of which was the Wendigo they already knew. But the remaining evil spirits made him frown.

The group of mystics summoned a total of four evil spirits: one was a brain monster with eyes, another was a twisted, skeletal humanoid skeleton with a clock made of bones behind it, and the last one, the strongest, was an evil spirit that even Odysseus felt oppressed by.

A near-Tier 5 evil spirit! It was an evil spirit that resembled a bone prison, filled with the skeletons of countless birds.

No, how could the evil spirits they summoned be something like this? This was Odysseus's bewildered thought.

Their evil spirit companions include the old man who loves crafts, little Annabelle, and Barak, the undead who is said to be Xerides' former teacher.

Although they are evil spirits in essence, they are at least evil spirits that have been passed down or actually existed.

Unlike here, apart from the Wendigo being an evil spirit that originated in the Americas, what are the abstract concepts of the Brain Monster, the Skinny Evil Spirit, and the Bone Prison Evil Spirit?

Odysseus had been surfing the internet for quite some time and was confident that he had some understanding of folk horror culture, but he couldn't find any specific concept to represent these three evil spirits.

However, it is clear that these three evil spirits are many times more powerful than Wendigo.

The Wendigo is already one of the most famous evil spirits in the Americas, but what monster is several times stronger than the Wendigo?

Odysseus slipped in without hesitation, and as he looked up, he saw a scene that made him frown.

One after another, "eggs" grow on the trees, and through the dim light, you can see that each egg contains a rapidly growing baby.

A large number of masked mystics began to deliver the babies, placing them in front of Wendigo like an assembly line. The huge deer-headed monster would lick the baby once and then send it away.

This ritual made Odysseus frown.

He now realized that the evil spirits here seemed to be the real entities, while the evil spirits summoned by the mystics outside were merely clones of these four evil spirits.

They didn't know how they could mass-produce babies here, and then these babies were licked by the Wendigo and sent out of the underground.

He was determined to pass on the information from here to Xue Dinglu.

Odysseus was thinking this when he seemed to bump into an "acquaintance".

"Oh, so you've been assigned to work here too?" This person seemed to be an acquaintance and greeted Odysseus directly.

Odysseus's possession of another's body was a forced takeover, and he didn't retain any memories. So, without hesitation, he prepared to abandon his current body. It was getting cold, so he wanted to let his good brother wear a scarf to keep warm.

"Alas, you're too late. If this continues, we won't be able to satisfy the expansionist desires of the four evil spirits, and things will get complicated..." As soon as the other party spoke, Odysseus temporarily stopped his plan to take action.

"Hmm..." He didn't know what kind of person his original owner was, but he kept quiet and prepared to try to get more information out of him.

“Ah, bro, it seems you don’t know much. Let me introduce you to our demons. You may have used the power of our four evil spirits in the outside world, but you still don’t know their true forms…” The enthusiastic mystic began to grow a twig in his hand and draw on the ground.

“That deer-headed one is the Wendigo, you know, the monster that represents the ‘collection of missing children’ in the Americas.” He said, drawing a lifelike deer head on the ground.

“But here, the concept of Wendigo is ‘children’s curiosity’,” the mystic said with a sincere expression.

"Ok?"

“You don’t understand, do you? I’ll introduce the rest of the evil spirits and you’ll understand.” He drew another monster that looked like a brain and said, “This second one represents ‘the boy’s dream’, we call it the ‘Learning Evil Spirit’.”

"Learn from evil spirits?" Odysseus was completely baffled at this point. Upon hearing the name, his mental processing unit started to churn.

Why would learning something so sacred turn one into an evil spirit?

He didn't quite understand, because in ancient Greece, having a teacher to impart knowledge and guide your learning was considered extremely fortunate. He had always felt that learning was an opportunity and a chance, and even when surfing the internet, he didn't really understand those who said students suffered.

"That's it. And the third one, the one that's all skin and bones and carries a giant bone bell, represents the 'hope of adults,' which we call the 'work demon.'"

"And the last one is even more extraordinary. It's the strongest evil spirit, representing 'the end of all things in this life' and 'the fear beyond death.' It's an evil spirit that, in conception, is more terrifying than death itself." The mystic leaned closer, speaking as if showing off.

"Its name is, the Debt-Incurring Evil Spirit!"

Odysseus: "?"

Your evil spirits seem a bit abstract now? No wonder he couldn't recognize them.

But Odysseus frowned, because if the man before him wasn't lying, then the four evil spirits the mystics had identified represented...

Childhood curiosity, teenage dreams, youthful hopes, and the end of old age...

It encompasses four key concepts from a person's birth to their death!

He was not a mystic, but even a layman would naturally be wary when he saw these concepts combined in the mysticism.

Then, the mystic began to lament, saying, "However, our progress in absorbing this concept has slowed down recently. I don't know who's causing trouble, but if this continues, we might all be filled in..."

While he was still complaining, a scarf was suddenly put around his neck.

The mystic was taken aback. He wondered if his bro thought he smelled good and had suddenly taken a liking to him.

But the next moment, he was completely possessed. Odysseus looked at the information he had just gathered, immediately killed his previous body, and then passed everything he saw to Xue Luding. He also left some information for the old man who loved crafts at the meeting place.

He needs to continue lurking underground, perhaps he can gather more information about the four evil spirits, or perhaps he can use an even more vicious scheme to directly cause the four demons to lose control.

Chapter 193 The Girl Named Alaye

Odysseus knew his infiltration wouldn't last long; unless these mystics were idiots, he would likely be exposed within hours.

After all, he did a very crude job of disposing of the body, simply replacing the previous host with the next one. Even the group of AI idiots who infiltrated the game would definitely realize the problem after discovering that so many people were missing.

Now he has to figure out a way to make the four evil spirits go out of control before the mystics can react.

"I should have asked for more bacteriophages." Odysseus thought of the 0.1 gram of bacteriophages he had gone to great lengths to get from the old man who loved crafts.

He originally obtained the bacteriophage just in case, but now he finds himself having to rely on it to interrupt the ritual of the four evil spirits, and preferably let them go out of control and wreak havoc.

These correspond to the Wendigo's curiosity in childhood, the evil spirit's dream of learning in adolescence, the evil spirit's desire for work in adulthood, and the evil spirit's debt in old age...

These four evil spirits completely represent a human life, the endless cycle from birth to death.

Even Odysseus, who knew nothing about mysticism, could imagine just how extravagant the elaborate ritual they were about to perform was.

Just as he was about to dive down again, he was stopped by someone.

"Go and organize our work results, and then report them to Lord Brinton," said a person who seemed to be a junior manager.

“Okay…” Odysseus sensed that this person even had just entered the legendary level. Just from the fact that he could hardly see any branches or bark on him, he knew that he was one of the people who had received a higher level of blessing.

After constantly changing hosts, Odysseus also gained a lot of information. One was that the stronger the blessing, the more human-like it became, while the weaker the blessing, the more it retained the characteristics of a plant.

The man in front of me, however, only showed signs of plant growth in a very small number of places.

After the supervisor left, Odysseus slipped inside and immediately began searching for intelligence.

Even though there was a constant risk of exposure, Odysseus had no choice but to do so, but a few minutes later, he was consumed by unparalleled rage.

"In 372 days, a total of 52 billion people have been infected, and in six months, it will completely infect 86 billion people worldwide..." Odysseus's hands trembled as he read these numbers.

"The reason for the slowdown in infection progress this quarter is that the populations covered by the concepts of 'curiosity,' 'learning,' 'work,' and 'debt' are gradually reaching saturation. We should develop a more suitable plan for covering the remaining population and strive to achieve the target within six months..."

"The next concept to take shape is the 'death' evil spirit..."

As Odysseus read the report, looking at the self-congratulatory presentation and the figure of 52 billion, he felt as if his long-lost heart was burning.

52 billion people! What do you take human life for?

He now understood why these corrupt mystics chose these abstract concepts as the source of evil spirits' power: their true aim was to spread the "fear" of these concepts to enough people.

However, because they were all high-ranking mystics, these were the greatest human sufferings they could imagine, and that's why they chose these as their concepts...

Therefore, the 52 billion people basically include everyone in those four concepts.

Even those who weren't included are no longer important...

Odysseus closed his eyes. What would the world be like if all people with the concepts of 'curiosity,' 'learning,' 'work,' and 'debt' died and turned into zombies?

That was a hell he could never have imagined.

He immediately passed this information to Xue Dinglu, and then handed over to Xue Dinglu all the things he needed to do next, as well as the old man's general plan.

This was also the last time he delivered intelligence.

He didn't even have time to think further. Odysseus only had 0.1 grams of bacteriophages (fungi phages) on him, and he had roughly learned about these little guys from the old man who loved crafts. These were plagues that specifically targeted bacterial and fungal structures.

Just as nature specially created a deadly enemy specifically for all bacteria (fungi), bacteriophages die quickly after leaving the bacterial host, and may even appear dead inside other organisms.

However, when it comes to dealing with bacteria (fungi), they are the most terrifying and intractable nano killers.

“I don’t know how long you can survive in the air, but you little guys, you must live as long as possible…” Odysseus opened the test tube containing the bacteriophages.

The next moment, a bow and five arrows materialized in his hand. He carefully coated the arrows with the bacteriophages, and then nocked all five arrows onto the Greek longbow...

"To hit five enemies in five different directions at the same time is really a challenge for a hero like me who is known for his strategies..." he laughed, but the next moment, without hesitation, he aimed the five arrows at the four evil spirits and the ancient tree at the very center of the four evil spirits that kept laying baby eggs.

"However, I am at least the most 'despicable' hero of ancient Greece!"

Five arrows were fired at the same time, creating a whistling wind that seemed to explode in everyone's ears like a sonic boom.

There was no time for the countless mystics to be puzzled or panicked, because the next moment, the four evil spirits and the ancient tree at the very center all went berserk.

The bacteriophages, these little guys that came from this world and were cultivated by "Doctor Xue's Law" and his wife specifically to target "wild bacteria," have for the first time revealed their fangs.

This bacteriophage would be utterly defeated by any other microorganism, achieving no victories whatsoever. For viruses, whether it's targeted culture or modification with cursed blood, it's like resetting or adding points; this bacteriophage is like washing away all other survival points, retaining only basic reproduction.

Then, all the points that had been washed away were added to the treatment of "wild bacteria".

This is the most targeted and decisive strike against those ancient microorganisms!

The evil spirits let out a series of wailing sounds. At that moment, the bacteriophages entered their bodies. These nanoviruses, also from the ancient past, unleashed their most terrifying targeted and reproductive capabilities.

If the original bacteriophages could only fight each other to a draw against the wild bacteria, now they kill indiscriminately when they come into contact with the wild bacteria. Their nanomachine-like bodies can easily penetrate the cell walls of the wild bacteria, thus filling the wild bacteria's cells with their "special attack" RNA.

Then, within minutes, the wasteland will be completely filled with bacteria until it bursts and overflows. Billions of replicated bacteriophages will shoot out like shrapnel, hitting the surrounding wasteland, and then the above process will be repeated.

From a macro perspective, the pollution spread rapidly in an instant at the places where the four evil spirits and the ancient tree were hit by arrows.

Just as easily as they infect humans, it would be even easier for bacteriophages to infect them!

The evil spirits went berserk. They had no thoughts; they simply instinctively grabbed the bewildered mystics around them, then brutally crushed and absorbed them, attempting to use the energy obtained from the outside world to resist the monster that had twisted them so drastically within their bodies.