Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough

Chapter 762: Concreteness Is a Game for Gods — Humans Should Play with Abstraction

Xie Antong: ......

She ignored Pleasure's teasing, just glancing sideways at the countdown overhead.

"Is that so? Then can you turn into a state of 'disappearance' right now?"

[How hurtful of you to say that.]

Pleasure and Lu Ce went back and forth, chatting in a delightfully absurd and cheerful manner, as if they had completely forgotten about the game and were simply here to enjoy themselves.

Only Xie Antong and Knowledge were left behind, the two of them looking deeply troubled and serious, earnestly engaging in the game.

In the distance, on the Despair Secret Sea, Perfect Life's gaze also instantly cleared. He couldn't help but turn his head to look at "Sin" on the shore.

That earlier "Blur" had actually affected even him, causing his wavering will to become firm and single-minded once more.

As he turned his head, he happened to meet "Sin's" gaze, making him pause for a moment.

In his line of sight, "Sin" was currently using lip-reading to say a sentence to him.— "Hurry up, what are you still waiting for?"

Perfect Life: ?

He was puzzled. He glanced at Xie Antong in another location, wondering why "Sin" would completely ignore his own game and keep watching his side.

So trusting of that girl? But that's the God of Knowledge.

However, he didn't have much time to ponder. He immediately turned his focus back, concentrating most of his attention on the Despair before him.

......

[Lake water!]

Suddenly, Knowledge spoke. Unlike the others, this was His game. He harbored no playful intentions. As the time was about to run out, He continued with His vocabulary.

Then, He turned His head, looking coldly at Xie Antong on the ground and said:

[Do not think for a moment that I will lose this match because of some lowly, foolish act of carelessness.]

[I will not exceed the time limit, I will not make mistakes. I suggest you abandon those meaningless fantasies as soon as possible. Even if you are an insect, now that this game has begun, I will take it seriously.]

[Only a fellow like 'Pleasure' is capable of being exploited and made a fool of because of a little clever trick.]

[But rest assured, I will not let you die so simply...]

Knowledge, feeling victory was assured, also became talkative, even continuously and indirectly cursing Pleasure.

But Pleasure had no time for Him. At this moment, Pleasure was still incessantly "flirting" around Lu Ce.

Calling him "Little Agony" with every breath, chatting about pointless things. It seemed purely for the sake of conversation, with a hint of substitute literature meaning.

Watching this made Xie Antong's brow twitch furiously beside them.

Now, it was her turn again, and it was an exceptionally simple, easy-to-start word like "water."

It seemed as if Knowledge was deliberately giving her such simple word-creation content, specifically going easy on her, letting her perform freely.

Truly... absolute confidence.

However, Lu Ce's earlier "Blur" had indeed served as a reminder for her.

In this game space, where the gods' stronger aspects are already clearly known, she should avoid them, not try to prove herself stronger.

If you want to prove you are stronger, that's completely falling into the trap.

Therefore, the idea that when saying a word, the imagination in your mind should be as "concrete" as possible might be a huge lie!

No matter how concrete you get, you can't be more concrete than Knowledge. Instead, it purely limits yourself.

It would be better to do the opposite—not think concretely at all, completely leave it to the rules of this game to operate.

After all, when saying "Blur" earlier, it was already verified that even if the gods were unwilling, the game still responded to that word and "stripped" them all bare.

Therefore, from the moment this game was created and the gods personally entered to participate, the game has, in fact, been above the status of the gods.

What you cannot do yourself, leave it to the game to do!

The more Xie Antong thought about it, the more sense it made. She couldn't help but shoot a surprised glance at Lu Ce by the sea.

In such a short time earlier, the word he proposed had probed out so much information?

In other words, in this "Life and Death Boundary" game, the spoken words should not be a contest of "concreteness," but a contest of "abstraction"!

Concreteness is something only gods play with. Humans should play with abstraction.

Abstraction...

After pondering for a moment, Xie Antong gritted her teeth and decided to try a high-risk operation. Slowly, she raised a finger.

"Water... element!"

Who knows what the water element actually refers to?

Xie Antong didn't know, but it didn't matter. This game knew.

The moment her words fell, the entire game world shook once again!

Arbitrator: ?

The azure sea vanished in an instant. Originally, there was a clear boundary between the "Life and Death Boundary" ocean and the black water of the "Despair Secret Sea."

But now, one side of the ocean disappeared instantly!

Not only that, but even the Despair Secret Sea began to emit vast plumes of black smoke, as if it were being evaporated.

Despair looked angrily at the Arbitrator. The Arbitrator was already doing his utmost to suppress all of this, stabilizing his sea to prevent it from drying up.

Seeing this scene, joy surged in Xie Antong's heart. It seemed her line of thinking was finally correct.

That Despair Secret Sea clearly couldn't be water. If she had said water molecules, it would have had absolutely no effect.

But water element... you're named 'sea,' you look like a sea, and you call it a sea, so it must have some relation to water!

Using the power of the game itself could directly affect a god like Despair. This was the true meaning of "arbitrary."

By the seaside, the previously summoned "Ge Ling Mo" creatures were now all dead. Their massive bodies had turned into dehydrated, paper-thin sheets stuck to the dry sand.

Once the word "water element" was uttered, basically no living creature containing water could survive.

But...

Her footing faltered. Xie Antong weakly collapsed to the ground. Her body now looked somewhat withered.

Seventy percent of the human body is water. Although the bound water wasn't much affected, the free water within cells had begun to drain away in large quantities.

This naturally had little effect on the gods, but for the three humans present, it was a massive blow!

[Oh? What's the meaning of this?]

[How did playing around lead to you giving yourself a heavy blow? Or do you think it's meaningless and want to commit suicide?]