Chapter 37: [filthy Bone Holy Mother]
After the explanation, the Captain stepped aside from the center position. Then he looked at Zhou Chu: “The squad continues under your lead.”
The others had dazed expressions, still pondering the Captain’s description. Whether or not to sign an Anti-Law with the Mao Mao King and embark on the system it controls? Diligently cultivating the uniform to enhance strength is absolutely a worthwhile choice, which has become the consensus among everyone.
“Hey, Meng Xi. Would you choose to cultivate the seed of power and walk the Mao Mao path?” Yuan Zhu nudged the dazed pink-haired girl beside him with his elbow and asked.
“Of course not. Playing around is fine, but I won’t easily sign an Anti-Law with an outer god.” Meng Xi shook her head. Zhou Chu said it well. Be vigilant against all Anti-Law Evil Gods; once contacted, reject them outright!
“Why?” Yuan Zhu pressed, just wanting to learn more intelligence.
“Why? Of course there are better choices! Anti-Law Demon Gods always give the impression of being unreliable, liable to collapse at any moment, with their Origin severed. Since you’re entering a power system, why not pick one with strong potential, broad prospects, stability, legitimacy, and especially suited to yourself?” The young lady countered.
Yuan Zhu listened with a yearning expression: “Oh, so what did you choose? Do you think it’s suitable for me?”
Meng Xiyue proudly lifted her chin: “I’m a university student, of course I go the academy traditional route. The brainy type, no pollution risk. What’s your education level? What are you good at? Tell me, let sister see if you have the aptitude.”
Yuan Zhu’s eyes lit up: “No pollution risk? How is that possible.”
“The uniform provided by the Mao Mao King, as long as you don’t sign an Anti-Law and stop before Supernatural Entry, theoretically has no pollution risk. The academy route is the same; it relies on accumulating brainpower and knowledge experience. We also have our own tools and mediums to explore, research, and summarize the rules of different supernatural powers, indirectly utilizing various powers. The methods are very cumbersome, but they win in safety.”
“Oh…” Yuan Zhu feigned partial understanding, mentally labeling her a scientist. It fits the academy style perfectly.
She also said she was guaranteed to live to 300 years old. It seems the universities on Du Ling Star all offer project courses in ‘Supernatural Powers Research,’ and the system is very mature.
He remembered the Fire Fang Boss promising to arrange for him to go to Running’s Rain Courtyard to consult on a suitable system for himself. His heart suddenly felt a bit excited.
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The squad members excitedly or enthusiastically chatted about their future paths to getting stronger, while the Investigator Lady squatted beside those active remnants, pulling out several familiar test papers from her pocket.
Yuan Zhu remembered that the two Investigators who investigated Evil God pollution in the Sacrifice Hall had also used the same test papers.
Noticing Yuan Zhu’s curiosity, Meng Xiyue explained: “Those are pollution test papers uniformly issued by the Security Bureau, five per set. Each is made with powders from several Forbidden pollutions added in. Thus, once the test paper contacts homologous pollution, it produces a special reaction for simple screening tests. Igniting a polluted test paper allows judging the pollution’s intensity through the flame’s strength and color changes.”
Yuan Zhu suddenly understood, finally grasping what those two Investigators had done back then.
Zhou Chu, who had dipped one corner of a test paper into the green viscous blood, also frowned, staring intently at the twisting patterns emerging and extending on the test paper, her face gradually showing hostility.
The Captain curiously asked: “Any findings?”
Zhou Chu stood up and lit the test paper in her hand, bursting into a small clump of dark green flames.
Her expression grave, she said to the Captain: “The situation is extremely bad. Though I don’t understand why these mad beasts’ blood suddenly turned green, I’m 100% sure they’ve been infected by Forbidden Pollution: Filthy Bone Filthy Blood. Filthy Bone Filthy Blood spreads through blood, biting, eating… and other means, with extremely strong infectiousness and wide spread range. In a closed small world like this with limited area and simple ecosystem, once an outbreak occurs, it’s hard to contain. Even the entire ecosystem will become filthy and corrupted, turning into a paradise for Filthy Bone Demonic Creatures.”
The Du Ling World is full of Evil Spirits with myriad pollution types; local residents have gradually adapted and grown numb, long since taking it in stride. Anyway, with the Spirit Layer as a super recycling station, once pollution gets out of hand, it can be smoothly rejected from the Present World, aiding its Ascension.
Survive this round of disaster, and good days come again, right?
Haven’t you seen how over Earth’s past millennia, droughts, floods, plagues, locusts, wars, and man-made calamities have swept through in turn, yet everyone stubbornly clung to life? Come nighttime, they’re happily making little people.
However, among the Du Ling World’s many pollution sources, there remain a few extremely terrifying types, jointly exterminated by overt righteous forces and major nations, defined as Forbidden. Once discovered, they are inevitably struck with full force and proactively eradicated!
The Filthy Bone Holy Mother is one of them; in a fantasy novel, it’d be a world-ending calamity.
“Are Filthy Bone creatures that scary?” Yuan Zhu looked again to the all-knowing Meng Xiyue young lady. University folks gotta know a lot!
“Emm…” The young lady looked aggrieved: Do you take me for a Q&A machine?
For your handsome face’s sake: “Twisted rationality in anomalous killing desires, super-strong filthy blood infectiousness, plague-like spread and diffusion ability, terrifying vitality, abnormally voracious appetite, signature black asphalt-like foul raging blood, blood-colored bones abnormally proliferating through pierced skin… these are the characteristics of Filthy Bone creatures.”
Yuan Zhu looked at that pile of meat chunks whose surfaces constantly cracked open to reveal little eyeballs, then quickly closed again. Amazed by their vigorous vitality: “Why is their blood dark green?”
“I don’t know, never seen it. The school refused to purchase or import ‘Filthy Bone System’ experimental subjects for being too dangerous. I’ve only seen them in the chart book, but those were ferocious giants clad in dark red skeletal armor. This veggie-dog-colored garbage, it’s my first time hearing of it. The world is full of wonders.”
Meng Xi’s expression was somewhat curious, somewhat disgusted. Like encountering something dirty, she actively pulled back distance.
Zhou Chu then stood up, snapped a rod-shaped object, poured the fuel inside onto that pile of vigorously vital green meat chunks, and lit it with a fire.
Those crazily blinking corpses and remnants surprisingly rapidly proliferated and grew rows of toothed little mouths, emitting shrill infant wails like a chorus, trying to attract nearby maternal creatures to come save them.
Yuan Zhu couldn’t stand the highly realistic crying and shouting, retreating with goosebumps, unable to resist asking: “Is it doing this on purpose? Could it not be fully dead, still retaining intelligence?”
Zhou Chu was expressionless: “No, it’s fully dead. Heads are all blown up; how could there be brains left to think? These corpse remnants’ crying is an instinctual survival mechanism etched in. If some animal gets curious, drawn by the infant cries or lured by the scent from these meat chunks, it might uncontrollably eat them, then get infected by the filthy blood. Even if it restrains the urge, these meat chunks can suddenly lash out and bite curious approaching creatures, achieving the goal of spreading filthy blood.”
With that, she kicked a stone flying with her foot. The stone landed amid that pile of beast corpses, immediately causing the surrounding meat chunks to writhe and twitch, opening wide the toothed mouths proliferated by consuming vitality, gnawing at the stone, then snapping their sharp but fragile milk teeth one by one.
Then they cried even more vigorously.
“So much vitality?!” Yuan Zhu and his little buddies were startled, all retreating. They couldn’t imagine how just moments ago they’d been whiplashing kicks, sending one beast after another flying. How in a blink, they’d become so ferocious and disgusting?
At this moment, the Little Goat, who just wanted to pounce and gorge itself but couldn’t, smelled the scorched stench and cried just as heartbrokenly.
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