Capítulo 678: Chapter 660: It’s Raining
Gust also began his solo mission here.
There are five white coordinates marked on the map. Besides the location where Mr. Question Mark is held, the rest must be inspected by him.
He needs to find a relatively important Outer Realm base and place the “bomb” in the deepest position.
Just holding this snail shell in his hand made Gust feel uncomfortable.
In Vortex Town, he licked almost everyone’s tongue, yet he had no desire to lick this particular student’s tongue.
Moreover, Gust could feel that after Katayama underwent [Deep Compression], he was in a chaotic state. Even this veteran was quite apprehensive of the dangerous aura released from inside the snail shell.
It couldn’t just be thrown out to explode; it needed to be installed deep within and detonated from a complete distance.
“This student belongs to a rather rare disease-type Green Door Monster… After being influenced by the Vortex, a kind of unknown biochemical reaction occurred.
From a certain perspective, it even partially transcended the category of monsters and became an alternative species.
The power of the disease bomb will undoubtedly be enormous, affecting the entire island. By then, the Outer God who is currently ‘abroad’ in the City of Sin will definitely rush back immediately.
Can Teacher Guo really do it? If he dies, the school management rights will likely fall into Question Mark’s hands, and then it will be hard for me to lick his tongue again.
Wait, I have an idea…”
Suddenly, Gust thought of a brilliant idea: “Luo Di’s rescue mission certainly won’t be that fast! Once the bomb is placed, I might as well go help him directly.
Quickly get Question Mark out, under the guise of licking the wound, give it a good lick to help him recover to his best state, then together we can support Teacher Guo.
After all, someone as powerful as me has to participate in the [Final Battle], doesn’t he? Leaving it all to Teacher Guo is too unfair to him.”
Gust instantly felt motivated, and his somewhat shriveled body became moist and swollen.
With a snap of his fingers,
the Tongue Monster hidden in the damp domain discarded its flesh, turning into a proportionate tongue, which landed steadily on his shoulder, rooting in through the nerve at the base.
“Deep Self Information Erasure”
A snapping tongue sound.
This habit imparted to Luo Di is actually a trait of Gust.
With the snap of the tongue in Gust’s mouth and the tongue on his shoulder, the originally mimetic him fell into a deeper level of information erasure.
The whole person seemed to disappear from the island,
as if temporarily erased from the world.
Even his recent teammates would subconsciously ignore his presence, struggling to recall someone like him.
Even though they still know the name Gust, any attempt to remember would make the related memories moist, turning the entire brain’s memory system sticky, and the related images would be filled with tongues.
In this state, he didn’t have to worry about exposure.
Sliding across the island at top speed, his soles were full of extra tongues allowing him to move quickly as long as he remained still.
The four white-point areas were soon explored.
These areas were not settlements at all but deep pits… more accurately, they were food reserves or captivity grounds.
About 4/5 of the infected monsters sent to the island could not reach the central area. Instead, they were sent to these deep pits.
There they would be labeled as “food”, imprisoned below, waiting to be “eaten”.
Gust stood at the edge of the deep pit, with his main tongue out of his mouth… buzz!
An invisible ripple of perception was released, capturing the bizarre creatures lurking below, one of which was in the midst of eating.
“Is this the ‘frog’ growing up in the ocean?”
Their physiques were generally over ten meters,
The surface of their black skin was still covered with the slime tissue from their tadpole stage,
Their webbed limbs allowed them to climb vertically with ease, and their jumping ability was quite astonishing.
The tail used to stabilize the center of gravity had a rock-like structure on the surface, seemingly the heaviest part of their entire body.
Their faces were a kind of large void, bottomless, usable both as sensory organs and for efficient feeding.
A matured offspring crawled to the cage housing monster infectees. After observing for a moment, it tore open the cage door with its hand.
Then pressed its void face up against it, sticking to the cell door.
Trapped inside, the infected monsters, whether due to mental collapse or a compelling call,
would walk towards that void face, throwing their bodies completely into it.
a ring of hidden, slimy, rock-layered teeth appeared between the void facial spaces!
A juicy bite, swallowing whole.
The offspring’s body also changed, seemingly acquiring part of that monster’s traits in its tail area, and its physique started to grow further, over three meters.
After stuffing itself,
the creature inserted its tail into the wall, contracting its body into a black, wet ball, and fell into sleep.
When waking again, it would choose the most suitable food for its growth.
There were many such black spheres.
The deep pit where Gust currently was, was the largest in scale and had the most matured offspring.
He had almost full disgust, as the presence of these things allowed Gust to foresee a terrifying future image.
“The reason the guys from Outer Realm occupy the [City of Sin], placing this central city, is to spread infection faster, hoard food, allowing their offspring to proliferate quickly.
The final result isn’t just corner infection, but all monsters are reduced to fodder, species replacement, making the whole Corner this guy’s [home].
This inferior creature without a tongue dares contemplate our extinction.
Come on~ Since your offspring love eating so much, try some snacks.”
Gust leapt silently into the bottom of the deep pit.
The snail shell, initially despised and hated by him, now held a sense of pride.
Placing the snail shell here, Gust endured his aversion to the taste, licking it lightly on the surface.
“Kata-kun, live on. In future biology classes, the teacher will give you special treatment and won’t nitpick at you.”
Unexpectedly, a faint sound emerged from within the snail shell:
“Thank you… Teacher.”
It was the location Luo Di sensed through Question Mark.
Not only were mature offspring active here, but also shrouded in mist, seemingly with special Angel Envoys patrolling between the pits.
An unknown magnetic field existed between the pits, capable of effectively disrupting perception. Although Luo Di knew Mr. Question Mark was below, he did not know the specific location.
Rashly searching would likely expose him before he found it.
At that time, he would face these strange offspring of the Outer God, the Angel Envoy guarding the prison, and the gusting Joke locating by scent.
He could only wait, await the explosion.
just as Luo Di was about to close his eyes to rest, a feeling of impatience invaded his mind, sourced from unease.
Instinct drove him to hide deeper within the pit because some danger was imminent, spreading across the island’s surface.
The mist covering the island also seemed to sense unease, starting to flow, as though something threatened its existence and would replace it in covering the entire island.
“It’s coming… This feeling is very much like what we felt in Curse, but stronger, more dangerous. It’s an indiscriminate spread of plague, even capable of corroding my flesh.”
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A not-so-obvious dull sound occurred.
Upon hearing it, the mist enshrouding the island dispersed completely or rather, was actively retracted by Joke! Otherwise, even the mist itself would be in trouble.
Vision became unobscured,
Luo Di glanced toward the source of the dull sound,
only to see a vortex-structured, obscure pillar of light shooting to the sky,
A strange domain expanded from the origin of the light pillar, gradually enveloping the entire island.
Simultaneously, a vortex-structured enormous cloud appeared aloft.
Yet the so-called “rain” wasn’t raindrops but snail shells.
Falling at high speed, the snail shells shattered upon impact, releasing some highly pathogenic slime into the air.
An unknown plague began spreading across the islands.
Seeing the snail shells descend, Luo Di leapt, seeking refuge within the pit.
The offspring in the pits sensed the problem with the island and quickly climbed out, their massive bodies fully exposed to the plague.