Wu Piwu was confident in defeating this so-called Wild Boar Demon, but he would definitely be severely injured, and it was even possible that he would perish alongside it.
The difference in physical quality between the two was too great.
This Wild Boar Demon possessed at least four to five tons of strength with each movement, while Wu Piwu, even when unleashing his hidden strength, could only muster about one to one and a half tons of power within a small area.
Naturally, he was far inferior to the Wild Boar Demon.
Even with faster speed, quicker reflexes, and enhancements in martial arts techniques, the combat power of both sides was still around three to seven, with Wu Piwu being the three.
Three meters tall! This was truly a behemoth for an ordinary person.
To put it in perspective, a male Asian elephant is only about three meters tall, and this Wild Boar Demon was already comparable to the size of an Asian elephant!
At this moment, Wu Piwu once again entered a state of madness, while the Wild Boar Demon let out a low growl, breathing heavily.
It ignored Wu Piwu's movements and charged towards him with large strides, causing the ground to tremble beneath its weight.
This size and strength, combined with a speed that was clearly disproportionate to its size, was akin to a dump truck barreling down the road at two hundred kilometers per hour.
However, Wu Piwu surprisingly stood his ground, completely motionless.
His entire body was relaxed, and although his eyes glowed with bloodlust, giving him a fierce appearance, his actions were entirely different from his previous state of madness.
From a distance, Qiuqiu gaped in shock.
Based on Wu Piwu's previous performance when he entered madness in the last dream world, she could even imagine the upcoming scene: Wu Piwu would surely break through the so-called boundaries and engage in a bloody melee with the Wild Boar Demon until one of them fell…
But that scene did not come to pass.
At the very moment the Wild Boar Demon was about to collide with Wu Piwu, its long tusks poised to pierce his chest and head, Wu Piwu grasped the Wild Boar Demon’s massive tusks with both hands.
Instead of engaging in a struggle, he used the grip to leap upwards, positioning himself atop the Wild Boar Demon’s enormous head.
A controllable state of madness!
During the final battle in the previous dream world, Wu Piwu had no choice but to use the active madness blood transport route of the Tiger Demon Technique.
It was truly a last resort, as the situation had become a matter of life and death; if he did not fight, he would die, and if he did fight, there was still a slim chance of survival.
That slim chance of survival was his Unresting Spiritual Awareness!
According to Wu Piwu’s understanding, madness also came in layers, much like the negative mental burdens he had carried for hundreds of years while frozen in slumber.
As long as it was not an all-at-once backlash, he still had about one hundred seventy days to survive.
As long as his level of madness was not too deep, he could rely on his Unresting Spiritual Awareness to recover to some extent.
And he had won the gamble; he had indeed managed to hold on thanks to his Unresting Spiritual Awareness at the last moment.
Afterward, when he obtained the personal information data interface, he gained a quantitative grasp of the level of his madness and the degree of mental backlash.
Currently, his mental backlash rate was at three percent, so as long as he could slightly increase the backlash rate, keeping his madness within a controllable range, he could attempt to harness the immense power of madness!
The balance was incredibly difficult to grasp, but Wu Piwu had a strong intuition that he could do it!
And now, he had truly achieved it—a state that was both mad and precisely under the control of his Unresting Spiritual Awareness.
At this moment, Wu Piwu genuinely sensed how powerful the state of madness was.
It was not merely the strength and speed gained from breaking through the body's self-protection limits; it also included enhancements in perception, akin to bullet time, semi-static reflexes, estimation abilities, and overall control over his own strength.
In the instant the Wild Boar Demon charged, Wu Piwu could instinctively calculate the force of the impact, the angle of the charge, and the damage he would sustain from the collision.
In an extremely short time, he simulated at least ten evasion plans, ten counterattack plans, and ten kill plans in his mind.
Then, these dozens of calculations for evasion, defense, and counterattack began to simulate in his brain, all occurring within a fraction of a second.
He then reached out to grab the Wild Boar Demon’s tusks and flipped himself onto its head.
At this moment, the Wild Boar Demon was still charging forward, while Wu Piwu pushed off with his feet against the protruding jaw of the Wild Boar Demon, using both hands to forcefully twist the tusks upwards.
With a roar from the Wild Boar Demon, the two tusks were brutally snapped off by Wu Piwu.
He did not stop there; holding the two tusks, he spun around and thrust them directly into the Wild Boar Demon’s eyes, penetrating at least one-third of their length.
After completing this, Wu Piwu pushed off with his feet, flipping in mid-air.
As he landed, the Wild Boar Demon, propelled by inertia, crashed directly into the heavy metal wall of the factory, denting it inwards.
The two tusks also pierced through its skull from the back, and the Wild Boar Demon twitched for over ten seconds, finally coming to a standstill, embedded in the metal wall.
At this moment, Wu Piwu's Unresting Spiritual Awareness shone brightly, beginning to suppress and absorb the negative mental backlash that had surged forth.
Suddenly, it seemed to reach a critical point, and the Unresting Spiritual Awareness expanded tenfold, causing the previously difficult-to-suppress negative mental backlash to recede like a tide.
In less than ten seconds, Wu Piwu finally completely freed himself from the influence of the madness state.
However, this was the retreat of madness on the mental consciousness level; the physical aspect still affected him.
The intense pain in his muscles, the dizziness from an overheated brain, the internal injuries caused by overexertion of his heart and lungs, and the sensory distortions resulting from exaggerated hormone secretion…
Based on Wu Piwu's recent actions and brain activity, what should have taken at least a month, or even several months of physical operation, brain function, and hormone secretion was all concentrated within these few seconds.
If it were not for his second-tier physical body and the enhancement in physical quality brought about by mastering hidden strength, an ordinary person could have easily died from such exertion.
Wu Piwu painfully squatted in place, his vision darkening, but his mind was still comparing the differences between this controllable madness and the previous passive madness in the dream world.
There was no doubt that controllable madness was far more powerful.
Although the combat performance brought about by uncontrolled madness was more exaggerated, it was a chaotic clash without any strategy, which meant completely losing the use of humanity's strongest organ… the brain!
In a controllable state of madness, his brain could operate at a hundred times its normal capacity.
If it were just a brute force clash, the outcome against the Wild Boar Demon would still be uncertain…
(Unfortunately, I cannot materialize the personalized information data interface here; otherwise, I could know the specific madness numbers and the mental backlash rate, allowing me to better grasp the use and development of this controllable madness.)
While enduring the pain, Wu Piwu silently contemplated.
At that moment, Qiuqiu hurriedly ran to his side, anxiously saying something, but she did not dare to touch him, appearing helpless.
Wu Piwu squatted for at least two to three minutes before slowly standing up.
His entire body was enveloped in red and white steam, with beads of blood oozing from the surface of his skin, creating a terrifying appearance.
However, he knew that his injuries from this round of battle were not severe, and he had essentially withstood the negative backlash of madness, which would not affect his subsequent battles.
That was quite good.
“... You fool, are you alright!?” Qiuqiu chirped anxiously.
Wu Piwu finally heard her words.
The sensory confusion caused by the excessive hormones in his body gradually subsided.
He shook his head and said, “I’m fine… But why did you turn into a human?”
Qiuqiu circled around Wu Piwu twice, carefully examining his condition and injuries before letting out a sigh of relief.
Then, she proudly said in a crisp tone, as if accompanied by a chirping background music, “Because I have a fairy bloodline! My ancestor was a Lark Demon. Although my cultivation is shallow, I am not an ordinary bird; I am a wise being just like you humans.”
Wu Piwu thought for a moment and then asked with curiosity and seriousness, “Then you should also turn into a bird person; why did you turn into a human?”
Qiuqiu became furious, jumping up and bumping her head against Wu Piwu's nose, then biting into the muscle of his arm, hanging onto him.
Wu Piwu was helpless.
He did not understand why Qiuqiu was always so easily agitated; it was the same when she named herself before, and now it was no different.
Could it be that fairies and demons were easily provoked?
Just then, a faint glow appeared at the corner of Wu Piwu's eye.
He immediately turned his head to look at the corpse of the Wild Boar Demon, where the light was emanating from.
Here it comes!
“Weekend” harvest!
The “Weekend” was different from the dream world; this place felt more like a virtual dream, while the dream world was more like an alternate realm.
In the “Weekend,” dying did not mean truly dying; instead, it triggered a state of confusion.
No matter how severely one was injured during the “Weekend,” once it ended and one returned to reality, all damage, corruption, mutations, and confusion would disappear, as long as one had not crossed the critical point.
However, items could be obtained from the “Weekend”!
The mainframe would mark high-value items existing around you with light; the more valuable the item, the brighter the light.
Once obtained, if it made contact with your physical body at the end of the “Weekend,” it could be brought back to reality.
Moreover, according to seniors, items obtained during the “Weekend” were often very powerful, either possessing special effects or akin to heavenly treasures and earthly riches!
At the same time, the higher your status with the mainframe, the more sensitive the markings would be.
Some seniors even claimed that in the maintenance teams of other regions, someone had been promoted to a third-tier maintenance worker, and during the “Weekend,” they even had a mini-map that could produce radar-like terrain and danger delineation effects.
This was also why Wu Piwu had used enhancement rewards before the “Weekend” began, raising his status to a second-tier maintenance worker.
Wu Piwu held Qiuqiu with one hand while walking towards the corpse of the Wild Boar Demon.
He dragged it out from the wall and, at the spot where the light was most intense on its forehead, pressed down, revealing a crystal the size of a pinky finger in his hand.
“Demon Core!” Qiuqiu exclaimed, and as she opened her mouth, she fell to the ground.
However, she did not care about the pain in her backside and jumped up again, trying to grab the crystal.
Wu Piwu raised his hand, dodging Qiuqiu's attempt to snatch it, and then asked, “What is it used for?”
Qiuqiu's eyes sparkled as she hurriedly said, “Give it to me! This can only be used by demons; it can absorb the demon energy inside and enhance my cultivation! Humans can’t use it; otherwise, they will be polluted. Although there is a chance of becoming a half-demon, there is a greater possibility of turning into an uncontrollable monster!”
Wu Piwu thought for a moment and said, “I can give it to you, but only after we return. It must be confirmed safe by the mainframe first.”
Qiuqiu immediately pouted, but she did not continue to snatch it.
Wu Piwu then looked back at the Wild Boar Demon.
Although he had extracted the Demon Core, there was still a faint glow surrounding the Wild Boar Demon, and it was glowing all over.
“Flesh and blood?” Wu Piwu pondered for a moment and asked Qiuqiu, “Can this Wild Boar Demon be eaten?”
Qiuqiu chirped, “Of course it can! This is at least a fifty-year-old great demon! Humans can gain great nourishment from it, and demons can also increase their demon energy cultivation a little.”
Then this could also be considered a “Weekend” item.
Wu Piwu nodded, looking over the corpse of the Wild Boar Demon, contemplating which parts to cut off and take with him.
Just then, a tremendous roar echoed from a great distance, as if the heavens were collapsing and the earth was splitting apart.
Both Wu Piwu and Qiuqiu fell to the ground simultaneously, the entire factory shaking violently.
Before they could react, intense light flashed from the high windows at the edge of the factory, accompanied by continuous explosions.
“Are the high-level maintenance workers from other regions here? Senior veterans? Or is it…?”
“The harvester has arrived?”
Wu Piwu looked at the dazzling light streaming in through the window, his expression gradually darkening.
(End of Chapter)