8: Chapter 8: Remains of a Discarded Case, and the Parasitized Deep-Sea Cold Whale!

"Association forbidden ground, unauthorized personnel keep out!"

The cold voice carried not a hint of emotion, sounding unlike something a human could produce, causing one's heart to involuntarily tighten.

Unfortunately, facing this voice was Zhao Jinlong.

To gather some intelligence, he was willing to risk his life and forcibly linger in such a dangerous place.

How could he possibly be frightened by a bizarre voice?

Suppressing the creepy sensation in his heart,

he quickly captured the key information within those few short words.

Association?!

Could these mysterious people possibly hail from some mysterious organization?

That was what Zhao Jinlong thought in his heart, and he asked it out loud as well.

Not far away,

002, with arms crossed over its chest, seemed to perceive something and abruptly turned its head.

Its calm eyes were like an endless abyss.

Just as Zhao Jinlong was about to succumb and plunge into eternal damnation,

a cold voice rang out beside his ear.

"It is the Pan-Humanity Guardian Association, maintaining the world so that it does not deviate from common sense, and guarding humanity's final survival bottom line."

002 turned around.

The expression beneath the hood could not be seen clearly.

But from the cold voice, its frigid personality could be heard.

"Pan-... Humanity? Guardian Association?"

Just as this mysterious entity spoke, Zhao Jinlong was surprised to find that much of the black-censored content in the text projected by the Gear had suddenly been revealed.

[Chaos █ █]

[Current Faction: Pan-Humanity Guardian Association]

Zhao Jinlong's pupils contracted slightly.

Without time to consider the meaning behind this, he instinctively opened his mouth, wanting to understand more of the inside story.

However, before he could open his mouth,

the nimble-actioned figures in black robes had already swiftly cleaned up the battlefield.

Once the operation was complete, 002 also waved the command at the first instance, calling back the team and leaving.

Swish——

A dark shadow flashed.

In a few nimble bounds, the figures in black robes turned into tiny black dots and vanished into the distance.

Such soaring and descending operational style

left Zhao Jinlong in despair; he couldn't even catch up to their exhaust fumes, let alone pursue them, and could only sigh in frustration.

He could only turn on his heels and sprint outward to contact the higher-ups as soon as possible,

attempting to use the city's ubiquitous Skyeye surveillance to see if any traces could be found.

——

The moon was high in the middle of the sky.

The bright moonlight sprinkled across the clouds.

As the moonlight gradually thickened and the night deepened,

by the window on the eighteenth floor, bursts of rhythmic knocking sounds rang out.

"Thud——"

"Thud! Thud!"

Su Xiu walked over with a calm expression and reached out to push open the window latch.

Swish——

A dark shadow flashed.

An unknown winged creature flew in.

It resembled a bat in the night sky.

Without careful observation, it was very easy to overlook.

After arriving indoors,

several pitch-black bats intertwined and converged, and amidst writhing flesh and blood, they transformed into a slender human figure that landed.

It was impressively the previous mysterious female.

That is to say, the second Sequential Anomaly personally written by Su Xiu.

[002 Chaos Salamander]

An axolotl purchased by Su Xiu at a pet store for a heavy sum of 100, used as its primary body, supplemented by deep-sea seawater, dried seaweed, bluefin tuna scales, and some odds and ends.

Serving as the material carrier, it was a Sequential Anomaly written into existence.

Not only did it inherit the axolotl's own super-regeneration ability, but it could also arbitrarily split its flesh and blood to shape any creature it wanted as a foundation, possessing extremely high manipulative control over flesh and blood power.

It also came with a certain ability to convert flesh and blood into physical weapons, possessing extremely strong piercing and decomposition characteristics.

Previously, during the handling operation against the Taotie Cat,

what looked like a methodical operation

was actually all handled by 002 relying on its own strength. Mysterious figures in black robes? They were all its split bodies!!

An orderly organizational structure...

from beginning to end, there was only 002.

With limited time, Su Xiu had no time to tinker with so many personnel and could only let 002's split bodies fill in.

Fortunately, the effect was quite good.

The result was correct.

[Ding——]

[Pan-Humanity Guardian Association triggered massive emotional fluctuations, Emotion Points +2910]

[Emotion Points +3739]

[Emotion Points +5552]

[...]

"The emotional fluctuations triggered by the Association can also condense into points?"

Su Xiu raised his eyebrows in surprise.

The randomly fabricated Guardian Association was just to give order-aligned anomalies like 002 a superficial identity to better integrate into the current world and conduct scrapped draft recovery.

He didn't expect such an unexpected harvest.

Even Su Xiu hadn't expected it.

Unfortunately, the editor was just an emotionless, cold machine and would not respond to his doubts.

But it didn't affect Su Xiu's train of thought.

His eyes flickered, as if brewing some new plan again.

However, compared to those,

the harvest this time was even more important.

[Emotion Points: 102912]

A wave of sudden wealth.

Not only did it directly break through the 100,000 mark,

but the subsequent fermenting influence was also making the points continue to rise.

[Emotion Points +193]

[Emotion Points +133]

[...]

However, apart from the simple data increase, this harvest obviously also contained something even more special.

"Master, I have not failed your mission!"

002 opened its stomach pouch and took out an amber crystal. Inside the darkly colored crystal, a large number of insect shadows seemed to flash by.

It was impressively the remaining debris after the Taotie Cat scrapped draft was blasted apart.

[Ruined Devouring Eyeball]

[Note: After a certain devouring-type creature went out of control and cannibalized itself, the remaining eyeball debris contained the flesh and blood essence of hundreds of Gu Martial Arts cultivators. The flesh and blood energy has been highly compressed.]

"Scrapped draft remains, huh?"

Su Xiu took this failure from 002's hands.

A written-formed document.

If it successfully materialized after deployment,

he, as the writer, could obtain the corresponding traits from it.

If the model collapsed and the document degenerated into a scrapped draft, by forcibly crushing the old case, he could similarly obtain the corresponding trait remains, which could be retained or used as a special carrier for subsequent writing.

As long as it was written into form, no matter how the document's subsequent trajectory went, he wouldn't lose either way.

In this lifetime,

although it was his first failure,

in his previous life, he had long since experienced it to the point of being accustomed to it.

He backhanded the item into the material repository.

What he cared about even more was what 002 had looted from the Longwhale Gang's lair.

It was at least from an extraordinary civilization.

Even if the tier wasn't high, it was still much better than Blue Star, a non-magic plane.

Among a large pile of odds and ends,

Su Xiu, panning for gold in the sand of items, finally discovered something that made his eyes light up.

[Infected Cold Whale Tailbone]

[The special creature Cold Whale, after being parasitized and infected by the Zerg, having its bones drawn and marrow sucked, and its flesh and blood squeezed dry, the only surviving section of tailbone. Inside, pure cold air accumulated, and it was used by the Longwhale Gang to cultivate water-type Gu insects. It retains Zerg parasitic blood shadows and possesses strong infectivity.]

[...]

Saying it was a section of tailbone, its actual size was half a person tall, and this was only the remaining volume after countless years of being constantly worn down by the Longwhale Gang to cultivate Gu insects.

One could imagine how terrifying the Cold Whale's original size was; blotting out the sky and sun was definitely not an exaggeration.

The tailbone constantly released mist and frost outward.

Surrounded by cold air, it

had a dreamlike and illusory translucency.

It didn't look like a bony material at all, but rather like some sort of dreamlike crystal.

Cold air? Ice crystals?

Strong infectivity?

As Su Xiu's gaze flickered, several proposals were already slowly forming in his mind.

Just as he was planning his next round of actions,

in another corner,

discussions about him, or rather about anomalies,

were also intensely underway...