Looking at the lifelike shadow wolf before him, Zhou Huai suddenly had an absurd thought.

Could the real world he currently lived in have been created in the same way?

Or to put it more boldly, the entire world is just a gigantic dungeon.

Whether Classer or alien beasts, they are merely the underlying code of this dungeon game.

That is why there are so many game-like settings.

Skills, equipment, experience points...

Yet on second thought, it felt a bit too ridiculous.

It shouldn't be as simple as code; after all, everyone has their own thoughts and consciousness, which cannot be designed by some kind of code or program.

If it truly could be designed, such a massive world and countless living beings...

Just what kind of immense workload would this be.

If someone could truly create all this, then that person perhaps has only one title.

Deity.

But are there really deities in this world?

Zhou Huai was not clear about it.

He shook his head, casting these chaotic thoughts out of his mind, stopped letting his imagination run wild, and began meticulously constructing the entire dungeon.

With the successful experience of the first time, subsequent progress became faster and faster.

Zhou Huai also grew increasingly fond of this feeling of creating a world within a dungeon.

Time flew by unconsciously.

Until a trace of fatigue originating from the depths of his soul came over him, Zhou Huai then realized that he seemed to have stayed in this dungeon world for too long.

With a movement of his will, he manipulated Zhuge Kongming to teleport out from the newly constructed dungeon world.

...

Outside, the sky was nearing dusk.

Gao Yuan of Dongning Academy paced back and forth outside the portal, his face full of anxiety.

From time to time, he raised his head to glance at the spatial vortex that was still emitting a faint light, his palms already full of sweat from nervousness.

He had been inside for a whole day.

Why hasn't he come out yet?

Could something unexpected have happened inside?

Just as he was burning with anxiety and even prepared to risk rushing in to check the situation, the light of the portal finally flickered.

A figure slowly walked out from within.

It was precisely Zhuge Kongming.

Seeing this, Gao Yuan's suspended heart finally fell back into his stomach, and he let out a long sigh of relief.

He hurried up to meet him with a respectful posture.

"Mr. Zhuge, you are finally out."

"I... I was really worried that something unexpected might have happened to you inside."

Gao Yuan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his tone carrying a bit of lingering fear.

After all, conducting dungeon construction for the first time was fraught with danger.

If one were slightly careless and sucked into spatial turbulence, even their corpse would not be recoverable.

Regaining his composure, he asked cautiously with a bit of curiosity and anticipation.

"Sir, for the first dungeon construction, how were the results?"

"Have you... have you already touched the threshold of constructing the dungeon outline?"

Although Gao Yuan asked this, in his heart he actually didn't hold expectations that Zhuge Kongming could construct the dungeon outline so rapidly.

He himself was someone who had been through it and deeply knew the difficulty involved.

For a novice, entering that void space for the first time was mostly a process of groping and adaptation.

In that place where even up, down, left, and right could not be distinguished, just maintaining the stability of one's own spirit was already extremely difficult.

Let alone mobilizing energy to carve out space.

From unfamiliarity to proficiency required a long process.

Thinking back then, he, Gao Yuan, was hailed as the most outstanding student in dungeon architecture at Dongning Academy.

Yet even for him, successfully constructing the dungeon outline for the first time took a full month.

And the size of that dungeon was merely less than a hundred meters.

Thinking of this, he had already prepared a stomachful of comforting and encouraging words.

Regardless of whether Mr. Zhuge failed or not, just this courage to dare to practice was worthy of his admiration.

However, Zhou Huai merely gave a knowing smile, manipulating Zhuge Kongming to speak in a calm tone.

"Indeed, there are already some Minor Achievements."

As he spoke, he stepped sideways, clearing the path leading to the portal.

"Teacher Gao can go in and take a look, and by the way, help me give some feedback."

Minor Achievement?

Seeing Zhuge Kongming so confident, Gao Yuan was somewhat skeptical.

He was also indeed somewhat curious to what extent the "Minor Achievement" in the other party's mouth could reach.

Did he successfully carve out a ten-meter space? Or twenty meters?

Zhou Huai seemed to see through his doubts and added another sentence.

"The internal space is already stable, and things like spatial turbulence will not happen."

"Teacher Gao can enter with peace of mind."

Seeing Mr. Zhuge so certain, Gao Yuan no longer shirked.

Geniuses always had their own pride; if he declined repeatedly, it would instead appear petty.

He nodded and said solemnly,

"Then I shall accept respectfully instead of declining."

After finishing, he did not hesitate in the least, took a deep breath, stepped onto the portal, and plunged headfirst into that deep vortex.

...

His vision distorted for a moment.

The next second, Gao Yuan felt himself instantly plunge from the dim dusk into a sunny world.

He subconsciously closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, the whole person was dumbfounded.

Good heavens!

What did he see?

Above the azure "sky", a warm "sun" hung high, casting a soft glow.

Where his gaze reached, there were rolling, towering green mountains, and the verdant sea of forests, like a green carpet, spread from the foot of the mountains all the way to the horizon.

A clear river, like a jade-green belt, meandered out from a distant valley, bypassed an open meadow, and finally converged into a sparkling lake.

The fresh air rushed over his face, carrying the fragrance of soil and the faint scent of vegetation.

By his ears were the gurgling sound of the waterfall, the crisp birdsong in the forest, and the rustling sound emitted when the breeze brushed past the leaves.

This... this, this, this...

Gao Yuan was completely shocked by the magnificent scroll before him, his brain was blank, and for a moment he didn't even know how to use language to describe the terror in his heart.

He originally thought.

The "Minor Achievement" in the other party's mouth would at most, at most, just be churning out the rough outline of a space of dozens of square meters.

Inside it would be empty and a piece of Chaos.

Yet what was the result?

This Mr. Zhuge Kongming not only constructed the complete dungeon outline,

even the scenes inside the dungeon had been designed so perfectly! Even the alien beasts inside were lifelike!

He subconsciously rubbed his eyes, suspecting whether he had experienced hallucinations.

Yet when he opened his eyes again, those green mountains and clear waters were still realistically presented before his eyes.

He could even see that on the edge of the distant forest, an alien beast resembling a wild boar was lowering its head to root around for something on the grass.

And under the tree shade not far from it, several pitch-black fierce wolves were crouching on the ground, locking onto their prey with faint green light, ready to strike.

This was not a model!

These were living alien beasts possessing autonomous action logic!

Looking into the distance, the entire dungeon space was boundless and vast, and its coverage reached at least several thousand meters!

Although the scenes inside were relatively simple, having only the three elements of mountains, water, and forests,

but for a Formation Master who had just come into contact with the field of dungeon construction, this was already quite not easy.

monstrous talent!

An absolute monstrous talent!

At this moment, in Gao Yuan's eyes, Mr. Zhuge's figure became increasingly unfathomable.

Whether in Formation attainment or talent in dungeon architecture,

compared to Mr. Zhuge, he himself was like a mayfly looking at the blue sky!

The success of the first dungeon construction gave Zhou Huai sufficient confidence.

Over the next few days, he immersed all his mind and spirit into dungeon construction.

Every step of operation and the carving of every rune were recorded, analyzed, and learned by the Intellect Core AI in the most precise manner.

Slowly, Zhou Huai began to let go.

He only needed to propose a vague concept.

"I need an underground world full of lava and obsidian."

The next second, the Intellect Core AI would take over everything.

Countless streams of data cascaded like a waterfall across the virtual light screen.

In the void space that was originally empty, the earth cracked open, and magma gushed forth.

Grim-looking volcanoes rose from the ground one after another, and the scalding lava converged into rivers, meandering and flowing on the pitch-black ground.

Even the air was distorted due to the high temperature, permeated with the scent of sulfur.

Zhuge Kongming's Intellect Core AI had terrifyingly high efficiency.

The scenes it constructed were far grander than what Zhou Huai personally designed, and the details were even more realistic.

Even the alien beasts it autonomously derived according to the environment carried a primitive yet dynamic vitality.

A lava hound burning with blazing flames all over its body would, because of hunger, go hunt crystal lizards on the rock wall disguised as ore.

Zhou Huai completely set his mind at ease.

He completely handed over the task of dungeon architecture to Zhuge Kongming's Intellect Core AI.

He himself extricated himself, his consciousness returned to Caesar, and he once again cast his gaze toward Sakura Country thousands of miles away.

Tokyo City.

Caesar was still playing that low-level punk named Natsume Masahiro.

He silently stayed in the corner of the plaza, like an inconspicuous speck of dust, mixing into the bustling crowd.

Three days had already passed.

In these three days, he strictly followed Zhou Huai's requirements, searching for every Professional who met the parasitic conditions.

Now, the total number of people quietly attached by the Alien Parasite had already exceeded three thousand.

Zhou Huai opened Caesar's attribute panel.

【Name: Caesar】

【Class: SSS-Level Insect Emperor】

【Level: LV19 (70% / 100%)】

Distance to rising to level twenty left only the last thirty percent of experience.

The corners of Zhou Huai's mouth hooked into an arc.

One had to say, the Classer of Sakura Country were also quite diligent.

For the sense of living, for the sake of becoming stronger, they fought day and night in various dungeons.

They made outstanding contributions to Caesar's path of leveling up.

Zhou Huai was very expectant.

What would the ultimate skill comprehended by Caesar at level twenty look like.

After all, it was an SSS-Level Professional, so it presumably wouldn't disappoint him.

"Buzz, buzz..."

The cell phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.

Zhou Huai pulled out that old flip phone, and a familiar name jumped on the screen.

Takeda.

It was him again.

In these few days, this man would call almost every few hours.

Zhou Huai temporarily couldn't be bothered to pay attention, directly pressing the hang-up button.

Because he had an even more important matter at this moment.

Just a moment ago, the Information Bug he had scattered out finally made a discovery.

That mysterious person who broke into the Ise Grand Shrine days ago.

They had found him!