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Chapter 223 A World of Dragons and Suffering

This sickly-looking girl calls herself "Obsidian," and she is very efficient. In a very short time, she distributed the information that Xue Lude needed to know. There are special personnel to help organize it, and Xue Lude will probably receive it in half an hour.

But he also knew that the refugees wouldn't know much about the secrets, so he just considered it a good deed he did on a whim.

At the same time, he also realized that the woman hadn't given her real name. He didn't know if she was deliberately hiding it or if it was just a common practice in this world to use nicknames instead of real names when meeting someone.

It didn't matter, and Xue didn't care what her specific name was. He would probably leave after healing these people and leaving some food and water.

By the way, we can leave Xiaolongniang here. Xue Luding doesn't know how to take care of children. He's taking an eight-month-old baby to explore this world. If these people are trustworthy, leaving Xiaolongniang here is the best choice.

“I am ready, sir.” Obsidian knelt before Xue Luding, then gently undressed himself, turned around slowly, and lay down on the ground, his two long, drooping ears resting on the wooden board.

At this moment, the old Demon Emperor looked at the dense cluster of protruding tumors on his back and said, "Radiation sickness in this world is so strange. Why does it grow like this?"

He had also learned about radiation and nuclear weapons on Earth and had some knowledge of these topics.

Xue's law also doesn't know that radiation sickness in Earthlings is usually a large-scale skin disease and organ failure leading to cancer, rather than a clear distinction between "tumors and normal skin" like this.

In particular, her normal skin was as white as jade, while the tumor, which was only a short distance away, was disgusting, as if it were a monstrous shape. This stark contrast was why the old Demon Emperor was puzzled.

“Perhaps this is a special constitution that the locals have evolved to survive in the high-radiation nuclear winter…” Xue Dinglu’s fingertip touched her back, and the next moment, the cursed blood entered her body as easily as a dragon.

"How so?" the old Demon Emperor continued to ask.

"Just as I thought, the natives of this world have an extremely strong radiation metabolism, and they gather all the radiation together to form a special organ, which allows their other parts to function completely normally..." Xue Dinglu felt the feedback from the cursed blood, but frowned.

"So, to her, this disgusting and ugly tumor is the organ that absorbs radiation? Is this girl out of her mind, turning the back of her head and spine into radiation organs?" The old demon emperor's sarcasm was quite sharp.

When faced with the choice of having to sacrifice a part of their body to absorb radiation, a normal person would usually consider non-lethal organs like their hands or legs. But for her, it was the back of her head and spine.

Furthermore, the back of his head and spine are connected together like a bridge.

When Xue's hand touched the tumor, Obsidian let out a low groan, but she quickly suppressed it and covered her mouth.

Xue Dinglu had no other thoughts; he was simply too shocked to speak.

"What's wrong?" the old Demon Emperor asked.

“This tumor is alive, and it has its own thoughts and a separate life. Moreover, this thing is not just an organ that stores radiation, but more like…” Xue’s words revealed confusion and incomprehension. Finally, he used the closest word to describe it, “A magical organ!”

"What? A magic organ?" The old Demon Emperor was stunned for a moment, even doubting whether he had heard correctly.

"Yes, they convert radiation into special bioenergy and store it in diseased organs. At critical moments, they can extract the radiation energy from the diseased organs to fight... It's hard to imagine that there is such a race and world that 'coexists' with radiation..." Xue Luding was shocked at this moment.

This is also why he didn't deal with the disgusting, twisted tumor immediately. For Obsidian, the tumor was both the source of her pain and the source of all her power. To her, the tumor was more like the "dantian" of a cultivator.

It contains countless special bio-energy converted from radiation energy. At critical moments, this bio-energy will be utilized and transformed into her own power.

Xue Dinglu thought of the unique supernatural system in this world that Olivia had mentioned... the Fel Warlock!
The woman before him was undoubtedly a sorcerer, but her body had deteriorated to the point where it could no longer withstand the radiation. According to the information transmitted back by the cursed blood, the tumor would completely erode her spine within three years.

She will become a cripple confined to a wheelchair, and in just a few years, her entire back of the head will be covered with tumors, at which point she will be no different from dead.

"This also explains your earlier question about why she placed the radiation organ in the spine, such a crucial location..." Xue Dinglu continued to sense the information transmitted by the cursed blood and explained, "Because with the magic organ here, the entire body can utilize the radiation energy from it at the fastest speed..."

The old Demon Emperor fell silent.

He suddenly had a terrifying thought: if this woman placed her magical organs on her spine, then there must be even more insane people who placed their magical organs directly on their heart and brain, right?

In other words, for the people of this world, the more they pursue great power, the more they need to focus their tumors on critical organs. Similarly, the greater their power, the larger their tumors become, and the faster they will die...

"What a... pathetic world..." The old Demon Emperor remained silent for a long time, and after figuring out the logic behind it, he could only utter such a sigh.

"Don't make sarcastic remarks. Your world isn't much better," Xue Dinglu immediately retorted. "Your world is the same. Everyone desperately learns and develops magic that squeezes out life force to temporarily enhance their combat power. The stronger a person is, the shorter their lifespan. How is that any different from them having to place tumors in vital areas?"

The old Demon Emperor was instantly speechless. He could only remain silent, because from this perspective, their world was just as tragic as this one, a world where everyone had to exchange their lives for combat power.

However, their tumors had evolved independent life forms, making the relationship between the tumor and the mother tumor as bizarre as two symbiotic organisms. But Xue Lude was puzzled because her tumor contained other genes that were completely different from her own. It was strange, like a parasite embedded in her body. However, various signs and gene comparisons showed that it was a tumor that grew entirely on her own.

The genes even seem somewhat familiar...

strangeness……

Xue Dinglu kept his hand on her back, thinking about how to proceed next.

His first thought was of how he used the cursed blood on the morph in the fairy tale world: to separate the tumor and then turn the internal magical organ into an external magical organ.

When needed, it can be installed on the body to unleash its power; when not needed, it can be removed and stored away separately.

But upon reflection, he realized he had a better plan, because he had previously created a method for cultivating "magical organs".

This refers to the magic ring system that once existed in the world of behemoths!
However, their world is different. This kind of thing obviously cannot be made into a magic ring, but it can still be stored by materializing a part of the body's soul and making it into an external magic organ. In the future, excess radiation and pollution can also be stored inside.

In other words, the tumor is made into something similar to the "dantian" (energy center).

Looking at the frail woman whose upper body was lying on the ground, maintaining this position, Xue Dinglu directly offered his solution.

However, the woman who called herself Obsidian seemed confused for a moment; she didn't know what Xue's Law meant by the materialization of the soul and magical organs...

"Never mind, just watch me..." The Cursed Blood immediately and swiftly severed all the lesions, separating the entire tumor from the normal cells.

Xue Dinglu grabbed the tumor and instantly refined it. At the same time, the cursed blood, through the principle of the previous magic ring, no longer affected the entire tumor on the body, but completely stuffed it into her soul.

After doing all this, Xue Dinglu breathed a sigh of relief. Everything went smoothly. He was prepared to use the cursed blood to absorb the disease into his body if anything went wrong.

Fortunately, there was no real danger. The theory was achieved, and the practice was also successful. Large areas of skin and flesh peeled off her back, which was the area that was cut off along with the tumor by the cursed blood.

With proper bandaging, it should recover in about ten days, leaving only a hideous scar on what should have been a smooth, jade-like back.

"All done! Check if the magical organs inside your soul can still freely use your abilities to fight?" Xue Dinglu wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead and asked.

Obsidian was still stunned. She touched the back of her head and back in disbelief, but what she touched was no longer the disgusting tumor, but a fresh, life-like pain emanating from the wound.

For some reason, her eyes seemed to be a little moist, but her emotions did not override her reason at this moment. She immediately sensed her own power, and then, to her surprise, she found that she could indeed sense this "magical organ" in the same way.

Without a word, she used it, and the next moment, a hideous and grotesque twisted "monster" crawled out from behind her. It looked like a combination of tumors and lesions, but after appearing, it quickly solidified into a physical form...

It transformed into a dragon-shaped monster filled with twisted tumors and pollution!

At this moment, both Xue Dinglu and the Old Demon King were astonished.

The old Demon Emperor wanted to say something more.

But Xue Dinglu suddenly grabbed the little dragon girl who was still munching on a baguette, and the cursed blood instantly entered her body. Xue Dinglu's pupils constricted as he stared at the mutated dragon behind Obsidian...

"The abnormal gene in that tumor is almost identical to the gene in Little Dragon Girl's body; they belong to the same family!"

"How is this possible?" The old Demon Emperor's mind went blank for a moment.

At this moment, Xue's Law reached a terrifying conclusion: "It's not that the people of this world have adapted to the radiation, but rather that they all have more or less dragon flesh and blood in their bodies. However, their original bodies are incompatible with dragon flesh and blood, so they can only marginalize the dragon flesh and blood and blood, turning it into a tumor..."

"They're not dragon hybrids, I'm sure of it, so there's only one possibility..." Xue Dinglu closed his eyes and stated his conclusion.
"The radiation in this world, or rather, the food and water they drink, is all 'contaminated' by the dragons... and they are born with the genes of the dragons contaminated, and must gradually adapt to the power brought by this contamination..."

"Similarly, they also have a strange symbiotic relationship with the dragons."

Xue Lude had never tried this before. He immediately placed his hand on the ground, and the cursed blood entered the earth like earthworms. Then, the blood transmitted back the information that Xue Lude wanted...

In the soil on this ground, a large number of single cells similar to the tumors on Little Dragon Girl and the sick woman were found, and those single cells were the source of the radiation!

It's as if this entire planet was once soaked in dragon's blood.

(End of this chapter)