65: Chapter 65 The Unspeakable Raccoon Apartment

"With this 'Dissecting Reality into Void' ability, exploring the root cause of the whispering syndrome ghostly disease infection will be much easier."

He placed the three egg-like objects he had obtained into a miniature box.

And pasted a label on the outside of the box:

Unknown Object.

Qin Feng pressed a button and shrunk it.

He stored it inside a black case.

Then, he picked up the case and headed toward the floors above the fifteenth floor.

Based on his previous experience.

Raccoon Apartments has a total of twenty floors.

On the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and finally the twentieth floor, there were respectively one, two, two, three, three, and one severely mutated patients with whispering syndrome.

In other words, there were twelve mutated monsters in total.

Of course.

On these six floors from the fifteenth to the twentieth, there weren't just twelve tenants.

The other tenants had actually also been infected with whispering syndrome.

But.

Their mutation symptoms were relatively mild.

They hadn't reached Level 2 or even Level 1; they hadn't transformed into monsters with intense aggression and special abilities.

However, as time progressed.

There was no telling if they would slowly mutate into monsters as well.

"The mutated monsters on the sixteenth and seventeenth floors are all inside their rooms. As long as I don't pass by the outside of their rooms, I won't disturb them."

"The eighteenth floor is where I first encountered those three mutated monsters: the emaciated patient, the muscular patient, and the androgynous mutated patient."

"The ones on the nineteenth floor wander the corridors, ceilings, and hidden corners at irregular intervals. They are very insidious and like to launch sneak attacks."

"The one on the twentieth floor... I only caught a glimpse of it before. It's extremely powerful, arguably the strongest among the twelve mutated monsters, but once I head downstairs, it stops chasing."

"It seems..."

"Is it guarding something on the twentieth floor?"

Qin Feng strongly suspected.

Perhaps the twentieth floor.

Was the hiding place of the Yao.

And the root cause of why Raccoon Apartments had undergone such a transformation.

But at the same time, a doubt arose in Qin Feng's mind:

If the Yao was hidden on the twentieth floor.

Why did it seal off the floors below the fifteenth floor?

Below the fifteenth floor...

Right now.

What exactly was happening?

Qin Feng tried hard to recall the scenes he observed when he previously went upstairs, but he came up with nothing.

In his perception, until he encountered that first Level 1 mutated whispering syndrome patient, everything in Raccoon Apartments was normal, with no abnormalities at all.

The pollution and mutation occurred without any warning.

Like a joke that suddenly popped up.

A fatal prank.

"Speaking of which, for the people of the Lower City, suddenly dying in a street crime, suddenly being infected by fatal pollution, or suddenly being dragged into a factory machine... etcetera, etcetera, are all commonplace occurrences."

"Death is never premeditated."

"When the wind blows, the stalks will fall."

"The fate of the Lower City people is just that simple."

Qin Feng climbed the stairs.

Entering the sixteenth floor.

The "Magic Blade" exoskeleton armor gun was attached to his arm in a wailing posture.

Soon.

The roar of gunfire erupted.

Outside Raccoon Apartments, a flock of red-eyed ravens took flight in alarm.

...

"Bang!"

A flesh sniper bullet, like a rocket, expanded and exploded with intense destructive force.

However, this explosion.

Did not leave even a trace of a mark on the outer walls of Raccoon Apartments.

There was only the vibration of the echo.

One by one, the ravens perched on the old wires and utility poles were startled into flight by the sound of the explosion, but they soon landed again, collectively staring at Raccoon Apartments.

Their eyes were blood-red.

Even in the pitch-black night.

That smear of red was extremely eye-catching.

It appeared quite eerie.

These ravens were called "Blood Ravens."

Due to the pollution from the giant beast's foul Qi, some normally normal animals, such as cats, dogs, and rats, would also undergo mutations, growing massive in size and gradually becoming beast-like with intense aggression.

Therefore.

There were almost no small animals in Canglang City.

The same was true for birds.

But there was one exception.

And that was the "Blood Ravens."

Although Blood Ravens seemed eerie, they actually fed on pollution and foul Qi. They weren't picky about rotting flesh from highly infectious corpses, and after eating, they wouldn't mutate; instead, they would purify the pollution, foul Qi, and various germs.

They were like a natural purification System within Canglang City.

So.

Even if mutated corpses and some corrupted Flesh Technology creations were discarded everywhere in the Lower City.

There was no fear of a plague forming.

The Blood Ravens might be late.

But they would never be absent.

Wherever there was pollution.

Wherever there was rotting flesh.

Wherever there were corpses.

Wherever...

The Blood Ravens would be there.

"Damn it! The Blood Ravens are increasing in number, which proves that unspeakable thing is growing more complete. What is going on with those Yao? Why did such a mistake occur? This is a serious violation of the agreement with the Upper City Goddess Cult..."

On a distant skyscraper.

On the rooftop.

Seeing that the bullets she fired were useless.

Lu Qingran's expression was a bit unsightly.

In her line of sight.

She could see.

Raccoon Apartments, which was originally just a common building structure and even suspected of having substandard construction, now had tentacles of deep red flesh crawling over its exterior walls.

Various unspeakable growths sprouted from the deep red flesh, spreading densely across the walls of Raccoon Apartments like ivy and penetrating its structure, making the entire building appear indestructible.

It was like...

A cocoon.

A giant, tough flesh-and-blood cocoon that was several times stronger than a metal fortress.

Each Blood Raven fixed its crimson, bright eyes intently on the mutating Raccoon Apartments.

Through the gaps in the windows that weren't covered by the eerie flesh, one could vaguely see some of the scenes inside the apartments.

Even if it was just a fleeting glimpse of the wreckage.

It was still enough to make one's scalp tingle.

Because...

It was a sea of blood-red.

Piles of fragmented limbs and flesh were stacked there.

As well as some heads displaying faces of despair.

A thick, sticky river of blood flowed through the corridors of the apartments. The entire scene was extremely horrific, as if the interior of the building had become the stomach of some creature, filled with the "food" it had consumed.

Except for...

The fifteenth floor.

And the floors above it.

"The exterior of Raccoon Apartments is almost entirely blocked by this damned Proliferating Flesh. This way, I can't see the situation inside at all."

"And those Blood Ravens are truly annoying, blocking my view."

Lu Qingran bit her pearly teeth.

For a moment.

A somewhat reluctant expression appeared on her face:

"I originally wanted to use that thing at a critical moment. I didn't expect to waste it in a place like this. President Qin, oh President Qin, if you aren't dead, I'll definitely have to come to you for reimbursement."

"Hmph, it would be best to make you pay with your body as interest..."

Lu Qingran stuck out her pink tongue and licked the corner of her mouth.

Immediately.

She reached into the cleavage between her breasts and pulled out a round eyeball emitting an eerie aura.

...

*Chila!*

Inside Raccoon Apartments.

On the nineteenth floor.

Qin Feng crushed the head of a spider-like mutated monster with one foot.

Then.

He picked up the blood-red, translucent Mutated Anatomy Knife.

Preparing to perform an Anatomy on it.