Chapter 523 The Ship of Theseus

"I think!"

Luo Jun looked into his master's eyes and replied solemnly.

Mr. Yuan nodded happily: "Yes, since you have embarked on this path of cultivation, you must put your goal at the top. No matter whether you are at the peak or becoming an immortal, you must have the confidence to transcend!"

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

Although Luo Jun had fought against Yu Hua before, the situation at that time was special and his condition was not complete. The Jiuzhou Qiqi obviously did not deal with him seriously. Now, Luo Jun has broken through to the ninth level of Peiyuan Realm, and his various attributes have also improved a lot. His strength is no longer what it used to be. If he meets that old beggar again, Luo Jun really has the urge to go up and make gestures.

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

"Before you truly gain the ability to condense your mind, you must not challenge Yuhua!"

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

"That's the literal meaning." Mr. Yuan nodded and said, "I'm not negotiating with you. If you still recognize me as your master, this is the teacher's training. No matter what happens, you can't conflict with the Ascension Realm!"

"Then what if Yu Hua comes to the door?" Luo Jun recalled the scene when he was bullied by Jiuzhou Qigong, and he felt somewhat unhappy.

"Then run!" Mr. Yuan said: "If you can't run, then give in, apologize, kowtow and admit your mistake. In short, as long as it can calm the other party's anger, you can do anything, just don't conflict!"

"This is a bit too cowardly..."

"A gentleman's revenge is never too late!" Mr. Yuan warned: "When you have no strength, the so-called dignity is worthless. When you have enough capital, no one will dare to disrespect you!"

Luo Jun looked at Mr. Yuan and saw concern and determination in his eyes. He finally nodded: "I understand, I will obey my master's orders!"

Luo Jun didn't have to challenge Yu Hua. If his master hadn't asked him, he wouldn't have thought about it.

He was a little surprised why the master suddenly mentioned this to him... Could it be that he was afraid that I would take the initiative to die because I didn't know the heights of the sky?

Just kidding, everyone knows that Yuhua is the pinnacle of this world. He is in the Peiyuan realm, but his brain is broken and he has no problem finding trouble with those land gods?

This Lao Deng is really worried.

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

This time he didn't bring Lingjian, and Luo Jun had already taken out three gold ingots in advance. He shouldn't anger the shop owner again, right?

The master and apprentice made some preparations. Mr. Yuan put on the Bagua Zhihu, Luo Jun held the ingot in one hand and took out the wall-building wand in the other hand. The two of them slowly stepped forward and knocked on the door carefully.

After a while, the iron door slowly opened, and a head stuck out. Different from the previous two, this time the head was that of a very beautiful young woman.

Not only does he have beautiful facial features, fair skin, and exquisite makeup, he even has no more disgusting tumors on his head. Because the door is blocking the view of the body below the neck, people can't help but wonder, is this really a person and no longer the disgusting monster with big hands?

"What's the matter, you two?" The woman's voice was very pleasant, but her tone was very cold and she couldn't feel any emotion.

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

The woman nodded: "It turns out that I am a guest, come in..."

With that said, she opened the door.

To Luo Jun's disappointment, the body behind the door was still the disgusting big hand, but this woman's head was on her ring finger.

The master and apprentice walked into the store. The beautiful head took the product brochure and asked, "Is there anything you want to buy?"

"If you want food, please give me ten portions." Luo Jun took out the banknotes, and the beautiful woman took them with her head. She quickly dug out ten food packages from the debris and handed them to Luo Jun.

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

After putting the food into the smart equipment bag, Luo Jun exchanged it for another map.

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

"I plan to save it and use it together." Luo Jun said with a smile: "Besides, I have a question to ask."

The beautiful woman glanced at Luo Jun: "This is not a library. I don't care about answering questions."

"I want to ask about hunting monsters." Luo Jun said with a smile: "It will be good for you to kill a few more chaos monsters, right?"

The beautiful woman's head blinked: "Okay, just ask, I don't guarantee that I can answer."

"What I want to ask is, if you are infected by a chaotic creature and start to mutate..." While asking the question, Luo Jun activated the secret dice and determined that he got a true answer.

"Is there any way to save it?"

When hearing this question, the beauty's eyes widened for a moment, and she looked at Luo Jun: "You have not mutated, why do you ask this?"

Luo Jun picked up an ingot: "Do you know where this ingot came from? It was originally one of my companions, but it mutated into a monster right in front of my eyes. I had no choice but to kill him. In the end, only Such a gold ingot."

"I can only watch him mutate, and I don't even know how all this happened. If this kind of thing happens to me, how can I avoid the same fate as him? Or at least, how can I prevent being killed? Infected by chaos monsters?"

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

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

"The process of humans becoming monsters is not infection, it should be said to be replacement."

"Replacement?" Luo Jun was stunned.

"Have you heard of the Ship of Theseus?" said the beautiful head: "A ship that keeps sailing on the sea has never sunk thanks to constant maintenance. Whenever a part of it rots, the crew will Timely replacement, after countless years, when every part of the ship has been replaced, is the ship still the same one? If not, then how many parts have been replaced? Or is it the original ship? From which part does it become a new ship?"

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

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

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

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

The beautiful woman nodded: "But you don't have to be afraid. Material is the foundation of the soul. When the material is replaced, your spirit and thoughts will also change involuntarily. You won't even be aware of this change. I just feel that everything is natural and I will happily accept this change.”

"No..." Luo Jun shook his head and said: "White Store said that this change should be related to the chaotic creatures that he came into contact with. And since it was an exchange, why did some people enter the maze together and some mutated and some were still fine? of?"

"He's right." The beauty's head smiled slightly and said: "This maze has been polluted by chaos. Those chaos monsters are the embodiment of this pollution. They are extremely concentrated chaotic substances. They will instinctively try to replace The best way to deal with outside creatures is to attack!”

"If it's just daily activities, being replaced is still a long process. But if you are injured, your metabolism will speed up in order to repair your body. If you happen to be injured by a chaos monster, then this replacement will be further accelerated. ...Replacement is irreversible. If you find that you have begun to mutate and don't want to become a monster, the best way is to let your companions kill you while you still have sense, and come to me with the gold ingot in exchange for the treasure."

Having said this, the beautiful head laughed and said: "That way, my death will be 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 be alarmist!" Mr. Yuan snorted coldly: "How do we know whether what you say is true or false!"

"I've given you the answer. Whether you believe it or not has nothing to do with me." The beautiful woman's head sneered: "How about it? Is there anything else you want to buy?"

"Wait a minute..." Luo Jun asked again: "The businessman in the white shop said that if the chaos monster that injured me exploded into ingots, then there would be no need to worry about mutation. What's going on?"

"The gold ingot is the product of the collapse of the chaos monster under the rules of the maze." The beautiful head said: "You can understand it as the corpse of the chaos monster. When a chaos monster dies, the remains of the body are not the real corpse, the chaotic matter The essence is concentrated and sealed in the gold ingot, so it will not speed up the replacement of the injured. "

"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 the gold ingot will not mutate immediately after exploding it, so they thought you escaped the fate of being replaced. Humph, a bunch of idiots , There is obviously protection from the rules, but nothing can be understood, and great resources are wasted. "

"I have another question." Luo Jun looked at the beauty's head: "Why do you, the black store, offer bounties on those Chaos monsters? What is your relationship with the Chaos monsters? What is your relationship with the White store?"

"This question is beyond the scope of my answer." The beautiful head smiled and said: "Is there anything else you want to buy?"

Luo Jun asked a few more questions, but couldn't get any answers, so the master and apprentice could only leave the store.

"In my opinion, what the monster said cannot be believed!" Mr. Yuan shook his head and said: "There are many doubts about what she said. It is probably false news deliberately released to disturb us."

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

"Why do you see it?" Mr. Yuan frowned.

"Intuition..." Luo Jun sighed, thinking that I can't tell you that I made a fortune in my mind, and the result must be terrible.

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

It seems that this seemingly timeless maze cannot be stayed forever.

Luo Jun originally wanted to concentrate on cultivation here and go out after a few years of seclusion, but now it seems that he has no time for that.

Now it seems that everyone, including himself, has been replaced by chaotic matter to a certain extent, but the key is just like what is said in the Ship of Theseus, how much has been replaced, and from how much, it is not the real self, and this cannot be verified at all.

In other words, he has no idea how much time he has left.

"Master, after we go back, don't tell everyone the truth." Luo Jun sighed, "I'm afraid they can't accept it. If there is another internal conflict, it will be even more troublesome."

"I think so too." Yuan Lao nodded, "What's more, I don't think that is 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 save."

"Even if what she said is true, as long as we can find the exit as soon as possible, Ling Jian can survive." Yuan Lao 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 Yuan Lao who came to the Midnight Hotel to help him.

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

The two quickly returned to the crowd and told them the information they got from the black shop. Of course, the truth that everyone is constantly assimilated was hidden, just saying that there is a risk of mutation if injured by the chaos monster, and if you want to save Ling Jian, you can only leave the maze and return to reality before he completely mutates.

Even so, everyone was still desperate. The problem came back to finding an exit, but at present, it was harder than finding a needle in a haystack to find an exit that changed its position from time to time in a huge maze of at least hundreds or thousands of kilometers.

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

There was really no other way now. Everyone immediately took out the monster-attracting incense and opened the food package from the black shop. As soon as they opened it, the bugs inside crawled out, causing several girls to scream.

After much persuasion, the monster-attracting incense and the weird meat were finally fused together. The two materials really had some kind of wonderful reaction. The weird meat originally exuded a foul smell, and the monster-attracting incense also had a weird smell. But after the two things were combined, they actually exuded a strange fragrance. Not to mention monsters, even humans wanted to get close when they smelled it.

But Luo Jun didn't use it right away. The area had been scanned by the map before, and everyone knew exactly what monsters and traps there were, so there was no need to waste props. They walked a few kilometers in a new direction and came to a new area, and finally ignited this enhanced version of the monster-attracting incense...