hotmtlnovel Chapter 57 The Train Crew's Attack! "Gluttony" is Coming!
Chapter 57 The Train Crew's Attack! "Gluttony" is Coming!
Chapter 57 The Train Crew's Attack! "Gluttony" is Coming!
The "gluttonous" destiny under the control of Obolos.
Its core is the endless process of devouring, digesting, and absorbing.
It is used to fill the absolute emptiness that we are born with and that can never be filled.
This path has no destination, no end, and not even the concept of "satisfaction".
Devouring is not for survival, nor for power.
Devouring is its sole purpose and form of existence.
【Swallowing the Stars】
The journey of gluttony is the "blank" map of the universe.
It moves slowly, passing by stars, planets, nebulae, dust, and even spacetime itself.
They were all torn apart and swallowed by its invisible "mouthparts," becoming part of its chaotic divine body.
It provides a brief, weak, and instantly forgotten "satisfaction" in the eternal digestion.
[Devouring creation].
Ironically and terrifyingly, the body of the glutton is not lifeless.
During the intervals between digestion, extremely chaotic energy and matter sometimes combine with the remaining fragments of the soul.
Some deformed life forms or structures were born by chance.
However, these poor "creations" are doomed from the moment they are born.
They carried with them an irresistible hunger and a desire to devour their "father" or "mother," Obolos.
They will devour each other and everything in their path.
Until it is swallowed up by a larger "brother or sister", or eventually reabsorbed by the main body of Obolos.
Inside its body is a miniature hell where birth, mutual devouring, and death are constantly unfolding.
[The concept of "devouring"].
What's even more frightening is that gluttony isn't limited to material things.
The history of civilization, the emotions of intelligent life, the laws of physics, and even the dissipated destiny power of other star gods —
Anything that "exists" is its potential food source.
Its very existence is the ultimate desecration and threat to all order and meaning in the universe.
Almost no intelligent life form would willingly worship Obolos.
Because that would amount to the complete annihilation of self-worship.
However, there are indeed some beings in the universe that have been corrupted by its power or infected by the concept of "gluttony" due to its creation.
They are usually monsters that have lost all rationality and are left only with the instinct to devour.
Or the remains of some mad civilization that attempted to utilize endless devouring power but ultimately suffered a backlash.
The spread of these entities is like cancer cells spreading from the very essence of gluttony.
The terror of Oborus lies in its absolute passivity and indiscriminateness.
Unlike "Destruction," it does not have the obsessive purpose of correcting the universe.
Unlike "pleasure," which pursues drama.
It's just hungry.
It's like a natural phenomenon that follows the laws of physics that devour everything.
Like a black hole.
But they are more "proactive" and "greedy".
It cannot be satisfied, it cannot be communicated.
It cannot be stopped.
It is the ultimate symbol of all “consumption” and “entropy increase” in the universe.
A slow-moving final countdown, destined to return everything to its chaotic stomach.
The only "countermeasure" against it is to wait until its appetite turns to itself.
I pray it gets attracted to something else that's even more "delicious".
The image of the sky.
The final image was captured in one painting.
The scene caused all living beings on the Douluo Continent to suffer from intestinal spasms and frozen souls.
A bustling galaxy.
It was slowly covered and swallowed up by a spreading darkness that filled its mouth.
The glimmer of stars fading away.
It became the final and most poignant "sauce" on the edge of that dark figure.
The narrator's voice carried a numbness born from witnessing absolute natural disaster:
This is Obros, the star god of gluttony.
It did not come to destroy; destruction is merely the dregs of what it devours.
It is not born of hunger; hunger is its eternal essence.
When its shadow passes, the end of all things is not a tragic sacrifice, but merely a quiet and thorough process of digestion.
"Gluttony—Obolos—"
In the valley, a rare and violent disturbance and warning signs appeared: "Database highest danger sign — Do not touch."
Unobservable, incomprehensible —
Existence itself is a cosmic-level informational hazard —
"Devouring everything—to fill the void—"
Bai Er repeated each word slowly and deliberately.
He looked at the mutant in Wuhun City who had begun to consume his companions.
Looking at the nauseating, dark appetite that flickered within the dim green beam of light.
He got it.
Aha's "surprise".
That source of pollution, a mixture of "destruction" and "abundance" —
The part that caused its "destruction" was not purely Nanuk's will.
Instead, it is mixed with the essential characteristic of "gluttony"—the indiscriminate devouring and digestion of all things!
The blessing of abundance provides "ingredients" for endless proliferation.
The very nature of gluttony leads these ingredients to devour each other.
To plunder everything in order to fill the ultimate madness!
This is not a simple mutation or disaster.
This is in the petri dish of Douluo Continent.
Artificially cultivate a miniature, accelerated version of the "gluttonous ecosystem"!
Let life in this world be lured by the bait of "abundance".
They quickly degenerated into monsters who only knew how to devour each other and the world.
Ultimately, even the world itself may be devoured by these "small-scale gluttons" that breed within it.
Become the ultimate "fun" for behind-the-scenes observers about "how civilization digests itself"!
"Hurry!" Bai'er's voice was hoarse with urgency.
"We must ensure that more people are corrupted by this mixture of gluttony and abundance."
Before the irreversible cycle of mutual devouring begins.
Find the train set, find the core source of pollution!
They transformed into streaks of light and sped away.
Behind them, in the ruins of Wuhun City, the first mutant had already "eaten" his companion.
As he staggered to his feet, his swollen body turned toward his next terrified target.
In their bloodshot eyes, only the most primal and greedy hunger remained.
The shadow of gluttony.
It has quietly dripped onto this land called Douluo.
A tense silence hung over the makeshift camp beside the wreckage of the Star Train on the wasteland. Himeko analyzed the unusual energy readings in the atmosphere with rudimentary equipment, Walter Yang used the power of Eden's Star to construct basic defensive and detection barriers, while March 7 and the Pioneers vigilantly patrolled the surroundings.
"The energy readings are absurdly chaotic," Himeko frowned, staring at the tablet in her hand that was flashing gibberish. "Besides the inherent soul power of this world, there are now at least three kinds of high-dimensional interference remnants mixed in: one is a purely malicious 'joyful' wave, another is a 'abundant' wave full of contradictory life force, and the third is—an extremely inert yet devouring 'void' wave, which is intensifying."
Welt said in a deep voice, "It's different from the imaginary energy I detected, and it's not pure antimatter either. This feeling of emptiness—it's more like the echo left behind by something constantly devouring the surrounding order and information." Having experienced the Herrscher's catastrophe, he had an instinctive wariness of powers that "corrode" and "devour."
Just then, March 7th suddenly pointed to the distant horizon and exclaimed, "Look! The sky over that city—the color is wrong!"