bookcurios Chapter 379 Desire Master
Chapter 379 Desire Master
Hehehe! Hehehe!
Seeing the astonished crowd, the monks at sea let out a series of eerie laughs, and since there were two of them this time, their laughter became even more chilling.
Divide into two?
What kind of move is this?
Everyone was shocked by the sea monk's amazing technique. They never expected that the sea monk, who had already suffered serious injuries, could make himself completely intact by splitting himself apart.
They were truly at a loss when faced with two completely identical sea monks.
While the stunned crowd watched from a distance, Lin Tian smiled.
In fact, he had already seen the invisible attacker, after all, he had extraordinary insight.
The reason he didn't offer any advice or help was naturally because he also wanted to see the sea monk's abilities.
This ability to split wasn't in the original game, so Lin Tian was quite curious. According to the sea monk, he only needed a little power to activate this magical ability and could split once or multiple times.
After the split, there is no distinction between primary and secondary entities, nor are there independent thoughts; that is to say, all the split entities share the same thought.
As for strength, it has naturally been weakened, but it is not a simple 50/50 split. On the contrary, to take the example of splitting into two, if there is 10 before the split, there will not be two 5s after the split, but two 6s.
Each split entity receives a slight boost in strength, so from that perspective, this skill is still quite useful.
However, don't think that by frantically splitting, you can obtain a group of powerful superhumans. The increase in power from splitting will decrease to a certain extent with the number of splits, unless you continue to increase your power, but this will increase the consumption, which will be detrimental to continuous combat.
Moreover, after splitting, you essentially lose a strong individual entity. In terms of one-to-one relationships, the more splits you have, the more disadvantaged you become.
After all, there is a significant difference between one gold and two silver.
Of course, given the already formidable strength of the sea monks, even after splitting up, these people were no match for him. The next scene was that the two sea monks charged into the crowd as if it were empty, slaughtering the enemy indiscriminately, and soon they had all been defeated and captured.
Lin Tian was naturally very satisfied with this, and then he quickly began interrogating them.
"Go ahead."
"Tell me everything you know, and I might spare your life."
Lin Tian sat on a small stool, calmly looking at the bespectacled man in front of him who was bound in a tortoise shell.
Hmm...pretty stylish.
Lin Tian's initial interrogation naturally yielded no results, since these guys also had a degree of loyalty and wouldn't easily reveal information about their master.
Lin Tian didn't think much of it, because he had plenty of ways to get this guy to talk.
"Let's do it."
Lin Tian gestured to the sea monk who had bound the bespectacled man, and soon the pink tentacles wrapped around the bespectacled man like ropes began to move.
"Ah~"
After a series of silvery cries, the bespectacled man finally gave in and revealed everything he knew to Lin Tian, who then finally understood the whole story.
They were originally just ordinary citizens of the country, without any desires, like machines, performing the same fixed actions every day.
Until one day, a creature called the Lord of Desire saved them, granting them the desires that humans should have.
Greed, lust, pride, and many other desires they had never experienced before appeared in them, and for the first time, they felt the pleasure brought by indulgence.
They call themselves the Awakened Ones, believing themselves to be a group of people who have truly awakened the human mind.
Their goal is to overthrow the current rule of the Gear Nation and to enable all the people of the Gear Nation to possess the emotion of desire, becoming true human beings instead of being emotionless machines with fixed programs.
This starting point was certainly a good idea, and Lin Tian had no doubt that some of them were fighting for it with such ideals in mind.
But once they have desires, they must naturally bear the corresponding consequences of those desires.
As a result, rape, theft, and violent crimes began to appear among these awakened individuals. Having developed desires, they considered themselves superior beings.
Those citizens who are devoid of desire and act like machines are considered inferior, while these awakened individuals view them as mere tools for their sexual gratification.
A desire stirred within the awakened ones, and after the first one to provoke it escaped punishment from the master of desire, a large number of awakened ones began their own acts of violence.
Of course, a large number of innocent civilians suffered as a result.
However, not all Awakened Ones are manipulated by desire.
Some of the awakened individuals felt that this was wrong; they believed their role was to help others return to normalcy, not to abuse ordinary people by taking advantage of their special status.
Therefore, some of the awakened ones broke away from the Lord of Desire's forces and became an independent organization.
The organization is named Dawn, meaning to bring light to everyone.
During this period, the three forces clashed continuously. The forces of Dawn, Desire Lord, and the official forces of Gear Kingdom fought each other in the country. The official forces of Gear Kingdom were naturally there to suppress the conflict, while the other two forces were there for their own purposes.
So don't be fooled by the seemingly calm surface of Gear Country; beneath the surface, undercurrents are already surging. It's believed that before long, the conflict between the three parties will escalate further, leading to an irreversible situation.
Lin Tian found it somewhat amazing after hearing this. Although he didn't know how the higher-ups in Gear Country had stripped people of their desires, Lin Tian knew that people's awakening was definitely related to love through smell.
There are two possibilities: either Huang Mei is secretly manipulating things behind the scenes, because he is capable of plunging a country into chaos.
Another possibility is that the guy called Desire Master truly possessed the clone of Nose Love, and whether he controlled Nose Love or Nose Love controlled him, the events were developing in a bad direction.
Even if ordinary people have desires, they won't directly kill or rape, but the proportion of such incidents among awakened individuals is quite high.
Lin Tian didn't know if it was because they had been suppressing their feelings for too long, or because of the influence of olfactory love.
All of this naturally requires further exploration, and after understanding all of this, Lin Tian also planned to take action. His next stop was naturally the largest city in the country.
Metropolis.