Evil Eye’s tentacles pierced into the temple, and Zou Feng’s consciousness gradually became blurred.
During this time, Black Tide Energy continuously infiltrated the brain, attempting to occupy the Sea of Consciousness, and search for memory information.
However, Evil Eye’s actions inadvertently triggered the taboo of the Challenger System.
The Purification System, created by Jiuyin, activated at this moment, swiftly clearing the Black Tide Energy that had seeped into Zou Feng’s brain.
The Purification System is one of the four core subsystems within the Challenger System, no less important than the data system created by Guidance, the spatial conduit system created by Yan Ming, and the Power of Extracting All Things crafted by Superdimension.
The primary function of the Purification System is to eliminate all negative states.
For instance, if a player dies under the influence of curse power, this portion of the curse power will also be extracted by the Power of Extracting All Things of Superdimension, and together with the decomposed blood and flesh materials of the player, they are sent back to the depths of Imperial Tomb Village for reshaping.
Without the protection of the Purification System, the negative states would persist even after resurrection.
The Purification System’s role is to filter out negative energies, ensuring players are in a perfect state as they are reshaped and resurrected.
Secondly, it ensures the mental health of the players.
Death, despair, fear, and other emotions occurring frequently can lead to abnormal mental states for players, and excessive mental stimuli might even result in mental illness.
For example, the emotions of hatred brought by Taunt abilities, even if out of control, there would still be related memories left behind.
The Purification System can perfectly soothe the players’ mental wounds, ensuring that with each resurrection, they are in an excellent state of mind.
The act of Evil Eye invading the player’s Sea of Consciousness has triggered the Purification System’s taboo, proactively started to clear a large amount of Black Tide Energy that infiltrated Zou Feng’s Sea of Consciousness, quickly dispersing the energy, and forming a purification shield within the Sea of Consciousness, protecting Zou Feng’s Sea of Consciousness from further corrosion by destructive forces.
As time trickled by, realizing something was amiss, Evil Eye continued its attempts a few more times before suddenly losing strength, and the Black Tide Energy that was still seeping into Zou Feng’s Sea of Consciousness receded like the tide.
"No good, I cannot access his memories, his Sea of Consciousness is protected by some unknown force, impenetrable."
Evil Eye’s thoughts resounded in the mind of Earth Thought Evil Spirit.
Earth Thought Evil Spirit, who was waiting for an answer, slightly furrowed his brows upon hearing this, and with a raise of his hand, pulled Zou Feng close, reaching out to clasp his neck, and decided to interrogate personally.
His fierce eyes, scorching like charred coal, stared directly at Zou Feng, a hoarse voice squeezed out from his throat:
"I am going to ask you a few questions, answer me truthfully, and I can make your death very easy."
Having regained his wits, Zou Feng upon hearing this, still appeared somewhat dazed.
Under the coercion of Earth Thought Evil Spirit, not only was there no trace of fear in his heart, but he also wondered why the Hidden Task had not been triggered. Could it be that the way to open it was wrong?
Or perhaps, dialogue was necessary to initiate the Hidden Task?
With this thought, Zou Feng immediately had an idea, looking at Earth Thought Evil Spirit and said discontentedly:
"If you’re going to ask, then ask, but first put me down. Ask nicely, I come to play a game, not to be mistreated."
Earth Thought Evil Spirit:...
In Zou Feng’s eyes, he could not see any trace of fear, only a strong feeling of discontentment.
At this moment, Earth Thought Evil Spirit released his grip on the throat, and Zou Feng promptly landed on his feet.
After shaking his limbs and stretching his waist to relax his body, Zou Feng looked up at Earth Thought Evil Spirit with dissatisfaction:
"Go ahead, make it quick... I really want to skip the narrative and get straight to the task; I hate game narratives that can’t be skipped."
"What game narrative?" Hearing the murmur from Zou Feng’s mouth, Earth Thought Evil Spirit asked in a deep voice.
"It’s none of your business, just ask."
Suppressing the desire to slap the creature in front of him to death, Earth Thought Evil Spirit asked in a deep voice:
"Tell me about where you come from."
Faced with the inquiry, Zou Feng fell into thought.
How to answer this question would clearly affect the unfolding of the Hidden Task; it would not be wise to directly state that he was a player, as it might lead to task failure.
This had been verified before.
He had seen a post by a player on the forum who had obtained the Heavenly Talisman Battle Skill, mentioning a layer of indescribable taboo regarding player identity.
The reason was that the posting player found that there were censored words in what he said when communicating with the God of Wealth, resulting in a significant portion of content missing when heard by the God of Wealth.
Many players on the forum had discussed this issue.
It was widely believed to be a taboo set by the "Dark Land" game, aimed at better role immersion, not to reveal the existence of another world, to avoid affecting the judgment of the game’s intelligent NPCs.
Therefore, how to answer this question would obviously require an explanation from the perspective of the game identity.
Thinking this over, Zou Feng gave an honest answer:
"We are warriors who believe in Emperor Zhao, our purpose is to overthrow the Black Tide’s destruction of this world, and defeat the Black Tide, so as to restore light to this world."
Zou Feng’s somewhat dramatic answer left both Earth Thought Evil Spirit and Evil Eye hovering above in silence.
Looking at Zou Feng’s sincere face, Earth Thought Evil Spirit couldn’t help but ask:
"Do you know what Black Tide is?"
"Of course, the destroyers invading this world."
"Do you know how strong the Black Tide Force is?"
"I’m not sure, perhaps very strong, but no matter, we will eventually overcome them."
Zou Feng’s response left Earth Thought Evil Spirit utterly speechless.
To Earth Thought Evil Spirit, this group of beings, though possessing some mystical Rule Power, seemed very weak and practically defenseless.