Published: March 2, 2025
Every day, Wen Yu walks between the earth's core origin and the caverns, coming into close contact with the sticky, giant earthworms, watching over the reckless Tang Haofei, and engaging in a battle of wits with Bai, the cunning old man.
This is the daily routine of the Black Cat named Victor.
While these days seem simple, the hidden dangers are not few, mainly because Bai is constantly muttering, clearly plotting something.
But Victor doesn't want to get involved, or rather, he feels he can't.
The times spent drawing origin power from the earth's core origin are the happiest for Victor—it's a feeling of abundant harvest...
However, good times don't last forever; the earth's core origin of the worm world will eventually run dry.
In the 289th year since Victor arrived in the worm world, the earth's core origin there was completely drained...
The depletion of the earth's core origin led to changes in the planet's climate, weather variability, tectonic movements, and large-scale deaths of life forms, but Victor, Bai, and Tang Haofei paid no heed to these matters. They simply stood before the earth's core origin, watching as its white light gradually dimmed.
"You guys say, how are we different from the demonic clan?"
Tang Haofei said solemnly, watching a world perish at their hands, his tone long and filled with deep emotion.
Bai and Victor both scoffed at him.
Tang Haofei immediately felt embarrassed.
"I just wanted to say something, no other meaning."
He waved his hands, awkwardly chuckling.
Bai and Victor merely tilted their heads, not sparing Tang Haofei a glance...
Over the past few hundred years, Tang Haofei had thoroughly pestered Bai and Victor.
As the Child of Earth, he inherently possessed half of the earth's origin power, and his affinity for origin power was so high it was unimaginable. In Bai and Victor's eyes, the origin power of the worm world was a tremendous opportunity, but for Tang Haofei, it was just a useless trinket.
However, the predetermined profit-sharing agreement was written in black and white, and Tang Haofei was entitled to a share of the planet's origin power. Regardless of whether he cared, could he really refuse what Bai offered? Thus, he moved closer to the planet devouring array and took a breath...
His strong affinity for origin power allowed Old Tang to absorb one percent of the total origin power of the planet in a single sip. Seeing this, Bai and Victor hurriedly stopped Tang Haofei.
The original one-third agreement was thus broken without resistance...
According to Victor, given your situation, what more do you want? Just give me your share.
Tang Haofei thought about it and found it reasonable, so he gladly agreed...
He wasn't just a rich man; he was also quite generous, and Victor was very willing to be friends with Tang Haofei...
In silence, Tang Haofei stood near the earth's core origin, unmoving, while Victor and Bai stood in front of the planet devouring array, continuously drawing origin power from the earth's core origin.
The once-torrential flow of origin power that surged into their bodies had now dwindled to mere drops of water. The entire planet's origin had been drained, and today was likely the final moment.
After a moment, Bai was the first to withdraw his hand. He glanced at Victor and took a couple of steps back.
With the remaining origin power already scarce, rather than competing with Victor, it was better to be self-aware and leave all the benefits for the Black Cat, thereby earning a favor.
Victor, embodying Wen Yu's style, didn't even say thank you; he just continuously increased his absorption strength.
As the planet devouring array erupted with brilliant light, the earth's core origin within shot out white light, resembling a blazing sun!
But everyone present understood that this was merely the final brilliance and splendor of this world.
Survival of the fittest is the way it is; the strong consume everything, while the weak can only endure their inevitable fate.
The sorrow of this planet was beyond anyone's understanding, and no one cared...