Infinitely Criticizing the Villain for Being Like My Ex-Boyfriend

"I am you."

Zhang Chunliang recalled these words that the world consciousness had said to him during a previous coma.

He looked at the scene in front of him that seemed like a journey back in time, and finally understood why the world consciousness said so.

"It's not that you are me...it's that you chose to live in my body. In essence, we are still two individuals." Zhang Chunliang shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

The consciousness of this world is most likely a wounded soul, becoming a little stupid and unable to express itself clearly.

...No, it may also be that it is extremely afraid of being hunted by the inner demon Kang Kang, and is worried that Zhang Chunliang will not let it live in his body and will expel it, so it dare not tell him directly about its parasitism.

Anyway...

"You have caused me so much trouble, man." Zhang Chunliang sighed helplessly.

In his hazy dreams, he heard the world consciousness crying out in sorrow and guilt.

But Zhang Chunliang couldn't feel any sympathy for it.

In order to remain pure and kind, it eliminated all its negative emotions, but for some unknown reason, it endowed negative energy with wisdom and life, and treated it as its "brother".

Now this inner demon brother obviously has a pathological control and possessiveness over its creator, and - it knows that the remnant soul of the world consciousness is in Zhang Chunliang's body.

That's why Zhang Chunkang showed such a strange "liking" for him.

"So... Zhang Chunkang is your inner demon? He existed long before the destruction of the world?" Zhang Chunliang pondered for a moment and found that his previous guess might be a little wrong. He asked, "Your world was invaded by a virus, so you used various natural disasters to drive away those 'viruses'. As a result, your people complained, cursed and insulted you, and even betrayed their faith in you."

The scene before my eyes blurred and disappeared as if washed away by rain, leaving only a blurry and dazzling human-shaped ball of light between heaven and earth. It was the remaining soul of the world consciousness.

Zhang Chunliang could feel that the beam of light was staring at him with a fearful and sad look.

It was silent for a moment, then nodded, confirming Zhang Chunliang's guess.

Seeing it nod, Zhang Chunliang continued to ask, "Your inner demon is already extreme and morbid, and it has thoughts of revenge. In order to punish those humans who betrayed you, and also to get you as the main body, it chose to cooperate with the Game House... That world-destroying high temperature was not you suicidal to expel the virus, but your inner demon got the help of the Game House to punish humans and weaken your power."

I just don’t know if Zhang Chunkang has ever thought that his brutal and cruel behavior would cause the world to completely collapse, and that he would gain nothing in the end.

The world consciousness had long been stupid and dull, and it was unable to actively narrate its past experiences. It could only rely on its ability to recall memories, allowing Zhang Chunliang to guess the reasons.

"Zhang Chunkang... is the Thousand-Armed Buddha that the villagers of Shuangshi Village believe in." Zhang Chunliang was silent for a moment, then said in a firm tone, "When you told me to be careful before, you meant to tell me to be careful of him, right?"

The ball of light and shadow nodded first, then suddenly shook its head.

It seemed as if it wanted to say something, but it couldn't express its thoughts smoothly, and the whole ball of light twisted impatiently.

"Don't...don't...don't..."

Zhang Chunliang was a little annoyed by its clumsy appearance, and his heart began to beat violently again. He forced himself to suppress his anxiety and took a deep breath.

He didn't know that his eyes began to glow blue again.

The ball of light suddenly stopped moving, it froze in place, emitting a strong sense of sadness and uneasiness.

“No, eat…～@》……》Don’t…be angry…@—#…”

Its voice seemed to be disturbed, sharp and unclear, causing Zhang Chunliang to feel severe pain in his temple.

He thought about his heart and wanted to cover his ears. After a long time, he reluctantly nodded.

In fact, he didn't understand what this guy wanted to say at all. It was as if there was a manic beast in his body, eager to escape from the cage.

"Don't, don't..."

The voice of world consciousness became smaller and smaller, and finally dissipated into the air.

The next second, Zhang Chunliang suddenly opened his eyes.

The scene before him was reflected in his dilated pupils.

An ugly monkey with a rotten face and covered in gray-white mold was squatting beside him, staring at him.

Zhang Chunliang's heart suddenly stopped beating for a moment. He subconsciously raised his leg and kicked the monster in front of him away.

The ugly, rotten monkey let out a sharp cry of pain and rolled several meters away.

For a moment, the noisy chattering sounds around suddenly stopped.

Zhang Chunliang breathed heavily in confusion and glanced around him.

...There were strange monkeys everywhere, some tall, some short, some fat, some thin. Some of them were so rotten that their bones were exposed, while others were still intact but covered with long gray or white hair. They were short and hunched, and the tallest one was only about 1.34 meters tall.

The strangest thing is that this group of monkeys all have some defects in their bodies to varying degrees. Some are missing ribs, and some are missing arms and legs.

"Where is this?" he muttered as he watched the group of monkeys slowly approaching him.

"This is the tower." Qu Anran's voice came from his ear. The grasshopper rubbed its antennae and made a very resentful sound. "Zhang Chunliang, you are really amazing. I finally got along well with them, but you kicked it away with one kick."

"If it were you, you would also have a conditioned reflex when you woke up and saw a strange monkey that looked like a zombie." Zhang Chunliang explained with a headache.

He stood up, took two cautious steps back, and bumped into a solid stone pillar.

He turned his head and found a tall, white stone tower behind him. The tower was carved with strange and intricate patterns, and it exuded a deep chill.

"It's made of bones." Qu Anran and Qu Anyi fled from the monkey pile in a panic and climbed onto Zhang Chunliang's body. "The whole tower is made of bones. There are even traces of us gnawing on the corners."

A huge tower built of bones imprisoned a group of strange-looking hunchbacked monkeys.

Zhang Chunliang touched the carvings on the tower and suddenly realized that this was not imprisonment, but suppression.

Someone suppressed these monkeys here.

"Chichichi--" The monkeys made calls one after another, raised stones, and looked at Zhang Chunliang angrily, as if complaining about something.

"They said you went too far and were a bad adult." Qu Anran tilted his ear to listen a few times and translated for him.

"They saved Liangliang, but Liangliang turned against them and wanted to stone you to death." Qu Anyi added, "We'd better run quickly."

However, Zhang Chunliang could no longer listen to what they said. He stared at the patterns on the bone tower with a dazed look in his eyes.

It was only when a stone hit his arm that he came to his senses.

“Wait… wait!” Zhang Chunliang was hit by the rain of stones and was in a mess. He put the two mice in his arms and ran away with his head covered. “I think I know their identities.”

"I think I know where we're going to end up." Qu Anran shouted angrily, "Don't run around the White Tower, escape from the woods next to it—"

Dozens of monkeys rushed out from both sides, holding various stones and fruits and smashed them at Zhang Chunliang.

Zhang Chunliang had no way to avoid it, so he hurriedly rummaged in his pocket for a moment, then took out something and threw it back at the leading monkey.

The leading monkey was caught off guard and fell to the ground, screaming.

It angrily raised the weapon that Zhang Chunliang had used to attack him, and then tore it into pieces.

Suddenly, the crispy aroma of white flour and the sweet taste of jujube paste emanated from the "murder weapon".

The strange monkeys closest to it all stopped attacking, and lay on the ground with curiosity, sniffing carefully.

Zhang Chunliang ignored them and hurried to look for the patterns on the white tower.

Two little mice poked their heads out from either side of his collar, followed his line of sight and looked over carefully. The three heads looked eagerly for a long time, their eyes becoming more and more shocked.

"I know who they are." Qu Anran spoke first.

"I know who they are now." Qu Anyi sighed softly, "So that's how it is."

"Chi chi chi——"

The monkeys licked the date paste snacks on the ground clean and became visibly friendly. They stretched out their ugly heads from behind the white pagoda, their cloudy eyes full of expectation.

"No more." Zhang Chunliang said dryly, "My stingy brother gave me one piece."

"Woo..." The monkeys let out disappointed cries, then dispersed and returned to the place where the snacks fell, looking carefully for the crumbs.

Fortunately, they no longer attacked Zhang Chunliang.

"What on earth are they now?" Qu Anyi asked, "Ghosts or zombies?"

"Their bodies still show signs of decay, and they look like corpses that have mutated." Qu Anran said, "They are still interested in human food, and they seem to still be conscious."

Zhang Chunliang looked at the largest carving on the bone tower in silence, and raised the corners of his lips sarcastically.

The carvings on the bone tower tell a story.

No one knows when it started, but a strange disease appeared in this fertile forest. Whenever the villagers of Shuangshi Village consumed plants or drank water from the forest, they would feel severe pain all over their bodies that would last for days and nights.

People tested poison on themselves and tasted all the animals and plants they could find, but they found that no food was non-toxic.

In the closed village, no one could explain this strange phenomenon. They just thought that someone had deliberately poisoned them. Later, a crazy old man came from nowhere and shouted every day that this was a "divine punishment." He said that humans had angered the gods, so the gods wanted to kill all humans. The only way to solve the problem was to sincerely apologize to the gods and offer their most loyal faith.

Some villagers believed it with some doubt. They followed the old man's instructions and enshrined a Buddha statue in their home.

However, the villager did not know what the Buddha statue should look like, so he carved a Buddha according to his own imagination. Soon, he found new fruits and vegetables growing in his backyard. These fruits and vegetables were very healthy, and his family did not get poisoned after eating them.

The story spread from one person to another and gradually became popular in Shuangshi Village. As a result, every household began to worship Buddha statues. However, they did not know what the Buddha looked like, so they carved them according to their own ideas.

Soon, the Buddha had thousands of heads and arms.

Under the organization of the village elders, the villagers gathered this Buddha into a real Buddha, and respectfully called it "Thousand-Armed and Ten-Thousand-Aspect Buddha", implying that the Buddha has no form, and it is the devout faith in people's hearts that has gathered into its appearance.

However, they later discovered that the power of Buddha was not permanent. Those harmless vegetables could only stay fresh for one day. After 24 hours, they would wither and rot.

In order to make the Buddha's blessing last longer, people began to offer various things to him and pray for him to bestow his divine power.

I don’t know who discovered it first, but this Buddha’s favorite sacrifice is children.

Villagers who sacrificed their children would receive a designated piece of land, and within three years, any crops grown on this land would be healthy and non-toxic.

The bone tower depicts a shocking story. The famished villagers of Shuangshi Village began to steal other villagers' children by any means necessary, slaughtering them and later offering sacrifices to the deity. Soon, there were only a few dozen children left in the huge village.

In order to escape this horrible curse, some villagers chose to flee Shuangshi Village with their families. But later, they discovered in despair that no matter where they went, they could not leave the range of the mountain. Shuangshi Village seemed to have been forgotten by the world, and no one could leave here.

However, to their surprise, outsiders were allowed to enter.

It happened that the outside world was experiencing high temperatures and drought, and countless crops dried up and died, but the vegetation in Shuangshi Village miraculously resisted the drought and survived tenaciously.

A large number of refugees were forced into Shuangshi Village, hoping to find a glimmer of survival here.

The villagers of Shuangshi Village tacitly concealed the truth that all the plants in the mountains were poisonous, and actively recruited refugees to enter.

At the same time, a deal was proposed to exchange the refugees' children for food and living space.

As a result, the villagers received countless "sacrifices" from outside.

"In order to convince the gods and Buddhas of their sincerity, they put all their efforts into raising these foreign sacrifices. Generally speaking, a good sacrifice needs to live in a villager's home for at least one year before it can be used for sacrifice." Qu Anran looked at the pattern on the sculpture and sighed seriously, "These are not villagers, they are a group of bandits."

"Do you think that 'Buddha' knows all this?" Zhang Chunliang asked.

Of course we know that the inner demon of the world consciousness is born to hate humans, and everything it does is just to play with people's hearts - it is such an interesting thing to watch this group of ants killing each other by any means necessary just to obtain a piece of land where plants can be grown.

Its brother once allowed these humans to take whatever they wanted and selflessly dedicated its vast land to humans, but these scum were ungrateful at all and even took it for granted.

It only gave them a small piece of land that could be cultivated within three years, but this group of people regarded it as a god, placed it high on a lotus platform, and enjoyed supreme respect.

As for these sacrificed children, it didn't care at all. From the very beginning, it just wanted to play with stupid and tiny humans and seize their faith.

So the young children who were used for sacrifice were abandoned and forgotten by people.

They didn't even know what they had done wrong, but were handed over to others by their loved ones and then brutally killed by their new families.

The overwhelming resentment and resentment gave them new life and allowed them to regain consciousness.

Fearing their revenge, the villagers of Shuangshi Village chopped off parts of their bones, built a bone tower next to the ancestral temple to suppress the wronged souls, and discarded their broken bones there.

This group of children have lived in the dark and cold tower for a very long time. Their limbs have rotted and strange hair has grown all over their bodies. They are ugly and desperate, but they cannot even die again.

[Side Quest 2: Investigate the secrets of Shuangshi Village (Completed)]

A sudden reminder appeared in Zhang Chunliang's mind.

"So simple?" He was a little surprised.

The secrets hidden in such a strange Shuangshi Village copy were so obvious, which made him, who had experienced too many complicated and difficult copies, feel a little awkward, and even suspected that there was some trap.

"Is it simple?" Qu Anran asked quietly.

"If you want to find the answer to this question, you first need to safely move into the home of a villager in Shuangshi Village. Secondly, you need to find information related to the ancestral hall. Finally, you need to enter here smoothly." Every step here is full of hidden dangers.

"You know, the reason these weird monkeys didn't tear you to pieces right away is because we two can communicate with them."

"This task may seem simple, but it actually requires countless coincidences and luck, which is why our opponent team has not completed the task yet." Qu Anran concluded, "It is our greatest luck that Li Mufeng, that bastard, is not around."