149: The only conscious being

Tian Ming was in a daze, he looked at the woman in front of him, feeling his thoughts were in a mess. This woman seemed to have appeared out of nowhere in front of him, with no breath, no warmth, feeling like a soul.

"Who are you?" Tian Ming's voice was a little hoarse as he looked at the woman's hollow, cold eyes.

The woman did not speak, she glanced at the Corpse King, then with a gentle wave of her hand, the tungsten steel spear on the Corpse King was directly pulled out, and the Corpse King's body instantly healed.

"Master, I..." The Corpse King lowered his head, extremely respectful.

"Take your kin and leave," the woman said indifferently, her voice seeming to drift from an endless void, making one feel as if they were being cut by cold blades.

"Who are you?"

Tian Ming's control range was suppressed, but steel beads continued to condense around his body. The woman gave him a feeling that was too bizarre and too terrifying.

The woman looked at Tian Ming, a smile appearing on her lips: "You ask who I am? Haven't we met in your dreams? Have you forgotten?"

Tian Ming's heart trembled, and the steel beads around his body shot out abruptly, all striking the woman's body. The other party did not dodge or evade, and the steel beads passed through the woman's body without any obstruction. This woman in white, she had no physical body, she was just a consciousness.

"Leave," the woman said calmly.

The Corpse King dared not delay, and quickly led the zombies away. Before leaving, the Corpse King gave Tian Ming a resentful look.

"I, should not be considered human. To put it in terms you can understand, I am a consciousness. In terms of this world's knowledge, I am more like a soul." The woman smiled slightly, her tone, though cold, held no malice.

"You can invade my dreams?"

The woman smiled indifferently: "It's not an invasion, your ability and mine are from the same origin."

"What do you mean?" Tian Ming felt that he couldn't communicate with this woman at all.

"In the dream, the rules I spoke of conform to the basic operating rules of this universe, and they should apply to all situations. Can you understand this?"

"Yes!"

The woman slowly said: "Regarding the rules of manipulating living beings, with me, I am the other broken half of the rules."

Tian Ming was digesting what the woman said. This woman could manipulate the elements that make up living beings, and this ability was what he lacked.

"Why do you help zombies? Since you are of the same origin as me, why don't you return?" Tian Ming asked two questions in a row.

"Hehe!" The woman smiled indifferently and said: "Return? Can you represent God? God just chose you, it doesn't mean you are God. God has played like this before, randomly choosing a creature, experiencing a simulated life, and observing the progress of intelligent civilization. This observation could last for dozens of cosmic epochs."

Seeing that Tian Ming didn't understand, the woman said somewhat helplessly: "You might not understand, a cosmic epoch in God's eyes is roughly equivalent to ten million years in this world. My existence is a rational stripping. It is mainly to limit the ability God bestowed upon you. God's game has just begun, and letting you know of my existence is merely to remind you not to have any thoughts of replacing God or the illusion that you are God."

After the woman finished speaking, she disappeared into thin air. After the woman disappeared, Tian Ming felt his control range quickly return to normal. He was still in deep shock. What observation? Was everything just a game, and he was even assigned a consciousness to prevent him from cheating?

Tian Ming had many questions in his heart, but he knew that perhaps only that woman could answer them. But that woman had already disappeared. He didn't know when she would appear again.

Although the woman gave him a cold, even eerie feeling, he could not deny her existence. In this world, there actually existed a being that transcended his understanding and imagination.

Tian Ming took a deep breath, temporarily suppressing the shock in his heart. Now was not the time to think about these things, he still had many things to do.

He returned to the city wall. At this time, about half of the more than 30,000 mutated zombies had been eliminated, and the rest had fled. Meng Xian was organizing people to clean up the aftermath. If not for the boss being here, the Shelter would have definitely been in grave danger today. Just those two Corpse Kings alone could have broken through the Shelter's defenses.

"Huang Qiusheng, tally the consumption and casualties of the Shelter. Send people to guard at night and repair the city wall as soon as possible," Meng Xian said.

"Okay, Meng Zong."

Tian Ming didn't say much and came down from the city wall. Seeing Tian Ming's bad complexion, Shen Yuan came over.

"Boss, what's wrong?"

Tian Ming stopped and looked at Shen Yuan: "I saw that woman."

"What woman?" Shen Yuan asked, somewhat confused.

"It's the woman in that photo, and also the woman in my dream." Tian Ming told Shen Yuan everything about his conversation with the woman just now.

After listening to Tian Ming's narration, Shen Yuan was stunned. She looked at Tian Ming, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"This, is this true? She appeared? Why didn't we see her? We only saw you stop, and then that Corpse King ran away with the other zombies. Then you floated in mid-air by yourself for about two or three minutes."

"You didn't see her? Impossible, when she appeared, my abilities were immediately suppressed." Tian Ming looked incredulous.

"We all only saw you floating in mid-air, with no one else's shadow."

Tian Ming frowned. That woman had no physical body, and her appearance itself was very strange. Now, only he and the Corpse King could see her. This feeling was like seeing a ghost.

"Are you really unable to see her?" Tian Ming asked again.

Shen Yuan said with great certainty: "I really didn't see anything, Boss, you don't not believe me, do you?"

"She helped the zombies, I don't understand why."

Tian Ming sighed and said, "I want to go rest, I feel a bit tired."

Shen Yuan looked at Tian Ming with concern, reaching out and touching his cheek.

"Boss, don't frown. Even if that woman is strange, with you here, the Shelter won't collapse. No matter what, I'm always on your side, always supporting you." Shen Yuan's voice was soft, her eyes filled with support and encouragement.

Tian Ming smiled slightly: "It's nothing, I just feel that there's a mystery behind my abilities and all these changes, and this mystery always bothers me."

"What does it matter? It's already the Apocalypse. New species have already appeared. What could be worse than this?" Shen Yuan comforted him.

Tian Ming nodded slightly: "Yes, well, never mind that, I'll go back and sleep, I'm really tired. Do you want to come with me?"

Shen Yuan's face flushed, and she said, "No, my dead skin hasn't all peeled off yet."